WEAPONS/FIREARMS: Provides an exception to the illegal carrying of weapons for certain persons who carry a concealed firearm during a mandatory evacuation
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 31, 2020
Signed Jun 12, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2020 · House May 22, 2020
How they voted
26–1
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 30
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic9
55% Yea
R
Republican21
100% 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. 322.
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 33 yeas and 2 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 Judiciary C.
upper
May 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 89, nays 5. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (10-0).
lower
May 4, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
0 primary · 19 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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