TO RECONCILE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE OFFENSES OF DOMESTIC BATTERING IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND BATTERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE; AND TO INCREASE THE PENALTIES FOR BATTERY OFFENSES UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2019
Committee Review
Mar 2019
House Passage
Mar 2019
Senate Passage
Mar 2019
Signed into Law
Mar 2019
Introduced Feb 5, 2019
Signed Mar 18, 2019
Floor votes · Senate Mar 13, 2019 · House Mar 4, 2019
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
Mar 13, 2019
D
Democratic8
100% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican25
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
7
Committee
2
Amendments
1
Mar 18, 2019
Signed into law
Notification that HB1379 is now Act 498
lower
Mar 13, 2019
Lower · Passed
Returned From the Senate as passed.
lower
Mar 13, 2019
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as passed.
upper
Mar 13, 2019
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Mar 12, 2019
Upper · Passed
Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
upper
Mar 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Feb 27, 2019
Introduced
Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
lower
Feb 26, 2019
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1
lower
Feb 5, 2019
Introduced
Filed
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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