CRIMINAL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to the recusal of judges
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
Apr 2022
Senate Passage
May 2022
Signed into Law
May 2022
Introduced Feb 28, 2022
Signed May 17, 2022
Floor votes · Senate May 11, 2022 · House Apr 5, 2022
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
May 11, 2022
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican22
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
5
Committee
6
Amendments
1
May 17, 2022
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 42.
lower
May 11, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 11, 2022
Upper · Passed
Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 4, 2022
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 7, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
Apr 5, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 96, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (8-0).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Feb 28, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tanner Magee
RRepublican
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