CRIME: Repeals the crime of vagrancy (EN DECREASE LF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
May 2020
Signed into Law
Jun 2020
Introduced Feb 21, 2020
Signed Jun 11, 2020
Floor votes · House May 15, 2020
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Jun 11, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 172.
lower
May 28, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 26, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 7, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (10-0).
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 21, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
0 primary · 37 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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