CHILDREN/CUSTODY: Provides relative to an award of custody to a person other than a parent
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
May 2019
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 27, 2019
Last action Jun 2, 2019
Floor votes · House May 6, 2019
How they voted
76–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 81
May 6, 2019
D
Democratic27
96% Yea
I
Independent2
50% Yea
R
Republican52
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
1
Committee
4
Amendments
3
May 29, 2019
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 28, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 8, 2019
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
upper
May 6, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 25, 2019
Introduced
Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
lower
Apr 22, 2019
Introduced
Reported with amendments (6-0).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Mar 27, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
WL
Walt Leger, III
DDemocratic
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