Catalytic Converters
Summary
Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
Apr 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Signed into Law
May 2023
Introduced Mar 7, 2023
Signed May 24, 2023
Floor votes · Senate Apr 4, 2023 · House Apr 19, 2023
How they voted
38–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 39
Apr 4, 2023
D
Democratic11
90% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican27
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
35
Key actions
11
Committee
10
May 24, 2023
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Apr 19, 2023
Lower · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 2
lower
Apr 13, 2023
Committee
Bill referred to House Calendar
lower
Apr 4, 2023
Upper · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 28, 2023
Upper · Passed
Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 23, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
upper
Mar 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Mar 14, 2023
Upper · Passed
CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
upper
Mar 9, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Mar 7, 2023
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Feb 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
upper
Feb 15, 2023
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Feb 6, 2023
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/14/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
upper
Jan 26, 2023
Committee
Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jim Boyd
RRepublican
Co
Ed Hooper
RRepublican
Co
Linda Stewart
DDemocratic
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