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Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
Apr 2021
House Passage
Apr 2021
Senate Passage
Apr 2021
Signed into Law
Apr 2021
Introduced Feb 10, 2021
Signed Apr 21, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Apr 19, 2021 · House Mar 16, 2021
How they voted
33–2
Passed
Total votes 35
Apr 19, 2021
D
Democratic7
85% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Nay
R
Republican27
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
Apr 21, 2021
Signed into law
Notification that HB1497 is now Act 824
lower
Apr 19, 2021
Lower · Passed
Returned From the Senate as passed.
lower
Apr 19, 2021
Upper · Passed
Returned to the House as passed.
upper
Apr 19, 2021
Upper · Passed
Read the third time and passed.
upper
Apr 15, 2021
Upper · Passed
Returned by the Committee, with the recommendation that it Do Pass
upper
Mar 16, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read the third time and passed and ordered transmitted to the Senate.
lower
Mar 15, 2021
Introduced
Amendment No. 1 read and adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
lower
Mar 11, 2021
Lower · Passed
Returned by the Committee with the recommendation that it do pass as amended 1
lower
Feb 10, 2021
Introduced
Filed
lower
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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