RAILROADS: Urges and requests the Department of Transportation and Development to study and work with Interstate 20 Amtrak partners to develop a passenger rail service connecting Texas and Mississippi through North Louisiana
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
House Passage
May 2021
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced May 6, 2021
Last action Jun 1, 2021
Floor votes · House May 26, 2021
How they voted
55–0
Passed · 9 other
Total votes 64
May 26, 2021
D
Democratic21
80% Yea
I
Independent1
100% Yea
R
Republican42
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
2
Committee
2
May 26, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 90, nays 0. The resolution was adopted.
lower
May 17, 2021
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (10-0).
lower
May 10, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 25 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Francis Thompson
RRepublican
Co
Beau Beaullieu
RRepublican
Co
Chris Turner
RRepublican
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Danny McCormick
RRepublican
Co
Dewith Carrier
RRepublican
Co
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
Co
Foy Gadberry
RRepublican
Co
FD
Frederick Douglass Jones
DDemocratic
Co
Jack McFarland
RRepublican
Co
Jason Hughes
DDemocratic
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