DOMESTIC ABUSE: Provides relative to protective orders
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 2, 2021
Signed Jun 16, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jun 7, 2021 · House May 6, 2021
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 33
Jun 7, 2021
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican22
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
37
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Jun 16, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 394.
lower
Jun 7, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Jun 7, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 26, 2021
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 25, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 11, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary A.
upper
May 6, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 19, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (9-0-1).
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Mar 2, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
1 primary · 20 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Carpenter
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Beth Mizell
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Denise Marcelle
DDemocratic
Co
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
Co
Joe Stagni
RRepublican
Co
Joseph A. Marino III
IIndependent
Co
KC
Karen Carter Peterson
DDemocratic
Co
Katrina Jackson-Andrews
DDemocratic
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