FORESTRY: Provides relative to the harvesting of cypress trees on state property
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
Jun 2021
Senate Passage
May 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 26, 2021
Signed Jun 11, 2021
Floor votes · Senate May 27, 2021 · House May 10, 2021
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
May 27, 2021
D
Democratic11
90% Yea
R
Republican22
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Jun 11, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 190.
lower
Jun 2, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 27, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
May 27, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2021
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 11, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
upper
May 10, 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
Apr 29, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (13-0).
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development.
lower
Mar 26, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
1 primary · 20 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Neil Riser
RRepublican
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Buddy Mincey Jr.
RRepublican
Co
Daryl Deshotel
RRepublican
Co
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
Co
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Mack Cormier
DDemocratic
Co
Malinda White
RRepublican
Co
Raymond E. Garofalo
RRepublican
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