BUDGETARY CONTROLS: Requires the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a voluntary environmental self-audit program
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
Jun 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Mar 8, 2021
Signed Jun 29, 2021
Floor votes · Senate Jun 7, 2021 · House Jun 8, 2021
How they voted
28–4
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
Jun 7, 2021
D
Democratic11
81% Yea
R
Republican22
86% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
32
Key actions
4
Committee
6
Amendments
3
Jun 29, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 481.
lower
Jun 8, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 88, nays 4. The Senate amendments, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, were concurred in.
lower
Jun 7, 2021
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
Jun 7, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 33 yeas and 4 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 26, 2021
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 25, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 18, 2021
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality.
upper
May 13, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 87, nays 8. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 4, 2021
Introduced
Reported with amendments (8-6).
lower
Apr 27, 2021
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Apr 26, 2021
Committee
Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
lower
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
Mar 9, 2021
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jean-Paul Coussan
RRepublican
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