Constitutional Amendments
Summary
Constitutional Amendments; Increasing the signature threshold at which the Secretary of State must transmit initiative petitions to the Attorney General for review; providing that a citizen may challenge in circuit court a petition circulator’s registration with the Secretary of State; authorizing the Division of Elections or a supervisor of elections to provide petition forms in a certain electronic format; requiring that ballots containing constitutional amendments proposed by initiative include certain disclosures and statements, in a specified order, etc.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
House Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Jan 22, 2020
Signed Apr 8, 2020
Floor votes · House Mar 11, 2020
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
38
Key actions
11
Committee
9
Apr 8, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Mar 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 73 NAYS 45
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Referred to Calendar
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Upper · Passed
CS passed as amended; YEAS 23 NAYS 17
upper
Mar 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
Amendment(s) adopted (440834)
upper
Feb 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Feb 21, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Building
upper
Feb 14, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Rules, 02/19/20, 10:00 am, 110 Senate Building --Temporarily Postponed
upper
Feb 13, 2020
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 02/11/20, 2:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
upper
Jan 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
upper
Jan 22, 2020
Introduced
Introduced
upper
Jan 22, 2020
Upper · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Ethics and Elections, 01/27/20, 4:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
upper
Jan 17, 2020
Committee
Referred to Ethics and Elections; Judiciary; Rules
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Travis Hutson
RRepublican
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