FUNDS/FUNDING: Creates a fund for the purpose of funding tuition exemptions and reduction of textbook costs for persons who are age fifty-five or older (EN INCREASE SD RV See Note)
Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
Jun 2022
House Passage
Jun 2022
Senate Passage
Jun 2022
Governor
Introduced Mar 3, 2022
Last action Jun 7, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Jun 6, 2022 · House May 24, 2022
How they voted
22–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 27
Jun 6, 2022
D
Democratic9
66% Yea
R
Republican18
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
28
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Amendments
2
Jun 6, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 95, nays 5, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
Jun 6, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
Jun 6, 2022
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 30 yeas and 2 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Jun 2, 2022
Committee
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 25, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Education.
upper
May 24, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 82, nays 12. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 23, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (11-3).
lower
Apr 18, 2022
Committee
Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Apr 13, 2022
Committee
Reported with amendments (10-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
Mar 3, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Education.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
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