COMMERCE: Provides for the licensing and regulation of virtual currency businesses (EN +$148,869 SG EX See Note)
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 28, 2020
Signed Jun 13, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2020 · House May 20, 2020
How they voted
25–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 30
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic9
55% Yea
R
Republican21
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
26
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Amendments
2
Jun 13, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 341.
lower
May 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 29, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
May 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 28, 2020
Committee
Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 27, 2020
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Senate Committee amendments read and adopted.
upper
May 27, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 21, 2020
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs.
upper
May 20, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 92, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 13, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (15-0).
lower
Mar 9, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Feb 28, 2020
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Mark Wright
RRepublican
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