ELECTIONS: Authorizes the payment of additional compensation to certain election officials for elections held within a certain period following a gubernatorially declared emergency (Item #5) (EN +$6,334,500 GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Sep 2020
Committee Review
Oct 2020
House Passage
Oct 2020
Senate Passage
Oct 2020
Signed into Law
Oct 2020
Introduced Sep 30, 2020
Signed Oct 27, 2020
Floor votes · Senate Oct 22, 2020 · House Oct 13, 2020
How they voted
29–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 30
Oct 22, 2020
D
Democratic9
88% Yea
R
Republican21
100% 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
Oct 27, 2020
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 11.
lower
Oct 22, 2020
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Oct 22, 2020
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Oct 21, 2020
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Oct 13, 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
Oct 13, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Oct 7, 2020
Introduced
Reported with amendments (13-0).
lower
Sep 30, 2020
Committee
Read by title, rules suspended, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
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Sponsors
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