ADOPTION: Limits the amount of adoption fees in certain cases
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
May 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Mar 29, 2019
Signed Jun 11, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 3, 2019 · House May 16, 2019
How they voted
26–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 28
Jun 3, 2019
D
Democratic7
100% Yea
R
Republican21
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Jun 11, 2019
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 320.
lower
Jun 3, 2019
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Jun 3, 2019
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 29, 2019
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 28, 2019
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported favorably.
upper
May 21, 2019
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
upper
May 16, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 2, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments (12-0).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
lower
Mar 29, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
lower
1 primary · 21 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Cameron Henry
RRepublican
Co
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
DS
Dorothy Sue Hill
DDemocratic
Co
GS
Gary Smith Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
HB
H. Bernard LeBas
DDemocratic
Co
JR
J. Rogers Pope
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Ken Brass
DDemocratic
Co
Lance Harris
RRepublican
Co
Mary DuBuisson
RRepublican
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