LAW ENFORCEMENT: Provides for abortion clinic employees to be mandatory reporters of human trafficking and certain sexual based crimes to law enforcement and provides for the additional postings of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline information. (8/1/19)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
Senate Passage
Jun 2019
House Passage
Jun 2019
Signed into Law
Jun 2019
Introduced Apr 25, 2019
Signed Jun 11, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Apr 30, 2019 · House Jun 2, 2019
How they voted
28–0
Passed
Total votes 28
Apr 30, 2019
D
Democratic7
100% Yea
R
Republican21
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Jun 11, 2019
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 280.
upper
Jun 4, 2019
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays.
upper
Jun 3, 2019
Introduced
Received from the House with amendments.
upper
Jun 2, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 30, 2019
Introduced
Reported with Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
May 29, 2019
Committee
Reported favorably (8-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
May 22, 2019
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
May 21, 2019
Committee
Reported favorably (11-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
May 2, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Apr 30, 2019
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 39 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
1 primary · 35 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Beth Mizell
RRepublican
Co
BP
Barrow Peacock
RRepublican
Co
Chris Turner
RRepublican
Co
CA
Conrad Appel
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
DS
Dorothy Sue Hill
DDemocratic
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
FM
Fred Mills Jr.
RRepublican
Co
GS
Gary Smith Jr.
DDemocratic
Co
Gerald Boudreaux
DDemocratic
Co
GL
Gerald Long
RRepublican
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