AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES: Provides relative to seed testing and labeling
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
May 2020
Signed into Law
Jun 2020
Introduced Feb 27, 2020
Signed Jun 9, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2020 · House May 21, 2020
How they voted
34–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 37
May 28, 2020
D
Democratic11
72% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
7
Amendments
1
Jun 9, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 148.
lower
May 29, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 28, 2020
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 26, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 22, 2020
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
upper
May 21, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
May 13, 2020
Committee
Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
May 7, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably (16-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
lower
Feb 27, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
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