LIABILITY: Provides relative to immunity for certain actions involving drug-related overdoses
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
May 2022
Senate Passage
May 2022
Signed into Law
May 2022
Introduced Mar 4, 2022
Signed May 31, 2022
Floor votes · Senate May 24, 2022 · House May 11, 2022
How they voted
36–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
May 24, 2022
D
Democratic11
100% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Amendments
2
May 31, 2022
Signed into law
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 225.
lower
May 24, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate without amendments.
lower
May 24, 2022
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 18, 2022
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 17, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 12, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
upper
May 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 3, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (9-0).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Mar 4, 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
Jason Hughes
DDemocratic
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