FUNDS/FUNDING: Dedicates the economic proceeds from the Deepwater Horizon litigation to transportation projects and redirects funding to the Construction Subfund of the Transportation Trust Fund (EN -$24,000,000 GF RV See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
Jun 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Mar 29, 2019
Signed Jun 25, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Jun 3, 2019 · House May 15, 2019
How they voted
27–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 28
Jun 3, 2019
D
Democratic7
100% Yea
R
Republican21
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Jun 25, 2019
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 443.
lower
Jun 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 92, nays 10. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
lower
Jun 3, 2019
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
Jun 3, 2019
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 27, 2019
Committee
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 20, 2019
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 15, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 4. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 1, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments (21-0).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Mar 29, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
0 primary · 31 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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