WEAPONS: Provides relative to the authority to regulate the manufacture, possession, or sale of firearms or ammunition during a declared emergency or disaster or public health emergency
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
26–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 30
May 29, 2020
D
Democratic9
66% Yea
R
Republican21
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
16
Key actions
3
Committee
3
Amendments
2
Jun 12, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 325.
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 34 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 Judiciary C.
upper
May 22, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 80, nays 17. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 15, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
May 4, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 14 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Danny McCormick
RRepublican
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
Co
Julie Emerson
RRepublican
Co
Kathy Edmonston
RRepublican
Co
Lance Harris
RRepublican
Co
Mark Wright
RRepublican
Co
Mary DuBuisson
RRepublican
Co
Mike Johnson
RRepublican
Co
Polly Thomas
RRepublican
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