COURTS/CITY: Provides relative to indigent defense services in certain city courts (EG NO IMPACT LF See Note)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
House Passage
May 2019
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 15, 2019
Last action May 20, 2019
Floor votes · House May 15, 2019
How they voted
55–17
Passed · 14 other
Total votes 86
May 15, 2019
D
Democratic31
45% Yea
I
Independent2
50% Nay
R
Republican53
75% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
10
Key actions
2
Committee
4
May 20, 2019
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 15, 2019
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 68, nays 20. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 2, 2019
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (11-2).
lower
Apr 8, 2019
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
lower
Mar 15, 2019
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Stuart J. Bishop
RRepublican
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