MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Authorizes the recommendation of medical marijuana for additional conditions and allows any state-licensed physician to recommend medical marijuana
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 11, 2020
Floor votes · Senate May 27, 2020 · House May 15, 2020
How they voted
21–6
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 30
May 27, 2020
D
Democratic9
66% Yea
R
Republican21
71% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
4
Committee
3
Amendments
2
Jun 11, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 286.
lower
May 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 74, nays 16, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 27, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
May 27, 2020
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 28 yeas and 6 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 20, 2020
Committee
Rules suspended. 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 Health and Welfare.
upper
May 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 15. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 7, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (11-0).
lower
May 4, 2020
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
0 primary · 11 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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