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Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Jun 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 23, 2021
Signed Jun 23, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2021 · House May 18, 2021
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 33
Jun 2, 2021
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
5
Committee
8
Amendments
2
Jun 23, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 450.
lower
Jun 3, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Jun 2, 2021
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 1, 2021
Committee
Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 27, 2021
Committee
Read by title. Recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
May 26, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 19, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
upper
May 18, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 12, 2021
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 28, 2021
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 27, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (15-0).
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Mar 23, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
1 primary · 47 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Rhonda Butler
RRepublican
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Carpenter
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Chris Turner
RRepublican
Co
Debbie Villio
RRepublican
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Dodie Horton
RRepublican
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