GROUP BENEFITS PROGRAM: Requires the Office of Group Benefits to cover bariatric surgery techniques for the treatment of severe obesity. (8/1/21) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2021
Committee Review
May 2021
Senate Passage
Jun 2021
House Passage
Jun 2021
Signed into Law
Jun 2021
Introduced Apr 1, 2021
Signed Jun 16, 2021
Floor votes · Senate May 12, 2021 · House Jun 3, 2021
How they voted
27–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 28
May 12, 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
23
Key actions
5
Committee
7
Amendments
3
Jun 16, 2021
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 388.
upper
Jun 8, 2021
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
upper
Jun 6, 2021
Introduced
Received from the House with amendments.
upper
Jun 3, 2021
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 93, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 25, 2021
Introduced
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
May 24, 2021
Committee
Reported favorably (18-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
May 19, 2021
Committee
Read by title, amended, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 18, 2021
Committee
Reported with amendments (12-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 17, 2021
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
May 12, 2021
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 10, 2021
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 29, 2021
Committee
Read by title. Committee amendments read and adopted; ordered engrossed and recommitted to the Committee on Finance.
upper
Apr 28, 2021
Introduced
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 12, 2021
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
upper
1 primary · 47 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Regina Barrow
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Carpenter
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
BM
Barry Milligan
RRepublican
Co
Beth Mizell
RRepublican
Co
Blake Miguez
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Cedric Glover
DDemocratic
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Cleo Fields
DDemocratic
Co
Ed Larvadain
DDemocratic
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