DISTRICTS/WATERWORKS: (Constitutional Amendment) Authorizes a political subdivision to waive water charges incurred through damage not caused by the customer (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF RV See Note)
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Jun 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
Governor
Introduced Mar 4, 2021
Last action Jun 14, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jun 6, 2021 · House May 18, 2021
How they voted
35–1
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
Jun 6, 2021
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
2
Committee
6
Amendments
2
Jun 7, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
Jun 6, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 3, 2021
Committee
Rules suspended. Reported favorably. Rules suspended. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 20, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
upper
May 18, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 12, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (9-0-1).
lower
May 3, 2021
Committee
Read by title, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Apr 29, 2021
Committee
Reported favorably (11-0. To be recommitted to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Mar 4, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jeremy LaCombe
RRepublican
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