ELECTIONS: Provides for closed party primary elections for certain offices (Items #7, #8, and #10) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2024
Committee Review
Jan 2024
House Passage
Jan 2024
Senate Passage
Jan 2024
Signed into Law
Jan 2024
Introduced Jan 15, 2024
Signed Jan 22, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Jan 19, 2024 · House Jan 17, 2024
How they voted
26–8
Passed
Total votes 34
Jan 19, 2024
D
Democratic9
88% Nay
R
Republican25
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Jan 19, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 67, nays 36, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
Jan 19, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 29 yeas and 9 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jan 18, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Jan 17, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 64, nays 40. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Jan 16, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (11-4). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Jan 15, 2024
Committee
Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 12 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Beau Beaullieu
RRepublican
Co
Beth Billings
RRepublican
Co
Brian Glorioso
RRepublican
Co
Danny McCormick
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Josh Carlson
RRepublican
Co
Mark Wright
RRepublican
Co
Mike Bayham
RRepublican
Co
Mike Johnson
RRepublican
Co
Phillip DeVillier
RRepublican
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