SCHOOLS: Requires school boards to accept certification of illness from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant when employees use leave due to personal illness. (gov sig) (Item #42)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2020
Committee Review
Oct 2020
Senate Passage
Oct 2020
House Passage
Oct 2020
Signed into Law
Oct 2020
Introduced Sep 28, 2020
Signed Oct 28, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Oct 12, 2020 · House Oct 15, 2020
How they voted
24–0
Passed · 6 other
Total votes 30
Oct 12, 2020
D
Democratic9
66% Yea
R
Republican21
85% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Amendments
2
Oct 28, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 34.
upper
Oct 19, 2020
Introduced
Received from the House without amendments.
upper
Oct 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 91, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Oct 14, 2020
Introduced
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
Oct 14, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably (11-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
Oct 13, 2020
Committee
Received in the House from the Senate, rules suspended, read by title, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Oct 12, 2020
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Sep 28, 2020
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Patrick McMath
RRepublican
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