PUBLIC MEETINGS: Authorizes public bodies to allow members to participate and vote electronically during certain states of emergency subject to certain conditions
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2020
Committee Review
May 2020
House Passage
May 2020
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 31, 2020
Last action May 27, 2020
Floor votes · House May 15, 2020
How they voted
71–0
Passed · 8 other
Total votes 79
May 15, 2020
D
Democratic26
84% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican52
92% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
10
Key actions
2
Committee
4
May 20, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2020
Committee
Received in the Senate; read by title Rules suspended. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Senate and Governmental Affairs.
upper
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 7, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (17-0).
lower
May 4, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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