SUNSET LAW: Re-creates the Department of Revenue (EG NO IMPACT See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
May 2020
Signed into Law
Jun 2020
Introduced Mar 11, 2020
Signed Jun 12, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2020 · House May 22, 2020
How they voted
30–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic11
54% Yea
R
Republican26
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Jun 12, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 296.
lower
May 29, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 29, 2020
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. 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
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 25, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
upper
May 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (13-0).
lower
Mar 12, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Stuart J. Bishop
RRepublican
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