HIGHER EDUCATION: Prohibits a public postsecondary education institution from withholding certain student services for financial reasons (EN DECREASE SG RV 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 28, 2020
Signed Jun 13, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2020 · House May 31, 2020
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic11
72% Yea
R
Republican26
88% 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 13, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 334.
May 31, 2020
House · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 6, Senate amendments concurred in.
May 29, 2020
House · Amendment offered
Received from the Senate with amendments.
May 29, 2020
Senate · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
May 28, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
May 18, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
May 15, 2020
House · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 69, nays 26. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
May 7, 2020
House · Amendment offered
Reported with amendments (11-3).
Mar 9, 2020
House · Referred to committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
Feb 28, 2020
House · Referred to committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
1 primary · 13 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Barry Ivey
RRepublican
Co
Bryan Fontenot
RRepublican
Co
Cleo Fields
DDemocratic
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dustin Miller
DDemocratic
Co
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
Co
Larry Selders
DDemocratic
Co
Randal L. Gaines
DDemocratic
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