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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 26, 2020
Signed Jun 9, 2020
Floor votes · House May 20, 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 9, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 137.
lower
May 29, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 28, 2020
Committee
Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 21, 2020
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
upper
May 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 13, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (14-0).
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
Feb 26, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 48 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
BP
Barrow Peacock
RRepublican
Co
Barry Ivey
RRepublican
Co
Beth Mizell
RRepublican
Co
Bob Hensgens
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Cameron Henry
RRepublican
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
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