Senate Bill 21-271 Clean-up
Summary
During the 2021 session, the general assembly created a civil infraction as penalty for violations of the law that do not rise to criminal conduct and included procedures for civil infractions. The act repeals those provisions and replaces them with new procedures for handling civil infractions. The act makes conforming amendments related to civil infractions. The act makes clean-up changes to other provisions to conform to changes made to criminal sentencing provisions during the 2021 session. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House Passage
Mar 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Feb 11, 2022
Signed Apr 7, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 21, 2022 · House Mar 4, 2022
How they voted
33–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 35
Mar 21, 2022
D
Democratic21
100% Yea
R
Republican14
85% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
5
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Apr 7, 2022
Signed into law
Governor Signed
executive
Mar 23, 2022
Introduced
House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
lower
Mar 22, 2022
Introduced
House Considered Senate Amendments - Result was to Laid Over Daily
lower
Mar 21, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
upper
Mar 18, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended - Consent Calendar to Senate Committee of the Whole
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Committee
Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Appropriations
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Introduced
Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments
lower
Mar 3, 2022
Lower · Passed
House Committee on Appropriations Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole
lower
Feb 15, 2022
Committee
House Committee on Judiciary Refer Unamended to Appropriations
lower
Feb 11, 2022
Introduced
Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary
lower
4 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
BG
Bob Gardner
RRepublican
P
Julie Gonzales
DDemocratic
P
Matt Soper
RRepublican
P
Mike Weissman
DDemocratic
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