CRIMINAL/SENTENCING: Increases the total number of credits that may be earned by an offender upon earning a bachelor's degree or master's degree (EN DECREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
Apr 2021
Senate Passage
May 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Feb 25, 2021
Signed Jun 1, 2021
Floor votes · Senate May 11, 2021 · House Apr 27, 2021
How they voted
27–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 28
May 11, 2021
D
Democratic10
100% Yea
R
Republican18
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Jun 1, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 5.
lower
May 11, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 11, 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
May 5, 2021
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 4, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 28, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
Apr 27, 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 22, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (9-0).
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 25, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 30 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Larry Selders
DDemocratic
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Carpenter
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
EC
Edward C. "Ted" James, II
DDemocratic
Co
FD
Frederick Douglass Jones
DDemocratic
Co
Gary Carter
DDemocratic
Co
Jason Hughes
DDemocratic
Co
Jeremy LaCombe
RRepublican
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