AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: To provide for the regulation of industrial hemp, industrial hemp products, and industrial hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2020
Committee Review
Jun 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
May 2020
Signed into Law
Jun 2020
Introduced Mar 31, 2020
Signed Jun 13, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2020 · House May 15, 2020
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic11
63% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
31
Key actions
3
Committee
12
Amendments
3
Jun 13, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 344.
Jun 1, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Notice House adopted the Conference Committee Report.
Jun 1, 2020
House · Reported by committee
Notice of Senate adoption of Conference Committee Report.
Jun 1, 2020
House · Reported by committee
Conference Committee Report read, roll called, yeas 100, nays 0. The Conference Committee Report was adopted.
Jun 1, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Conference Committee Report read; adopted by a vote of 31 yeas and 0 nays.
Jun 1, 2020
House · Reported by committee
Conference Committee report received.
Jun 1, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Notice House Conference Committee members appointed.
Jun 1, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Senate conference committee members appointed: Cathey, Womack, and Bernard.
May 31, 2020
Senate · Failed
Notice House rejected the Senate amendments.
May 31, 2020
House · Failed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 0, Senate amendments rejected, conference committee appointment pending.
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 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
May 28, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
May 26, 2020
Senate · Referred to committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
May 26, 2020
Senate · Reported by committee
Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
May 26, 2020
Senate · Amendment offered
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
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 Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
May 15, 2020
House · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 90, nays 3. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
May 7, 2020
House · Amendment offered
Reported with amendments (17-0).
May 4, 2020
House · Referred to committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
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