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Bill status
passed both
4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2022
Committee Review
May 2022
House Passage
Jun 2022
Senate Passage
Jun 2022
Governor
Introduced Mar 4, 2022
Last action Jun 7, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Jun 2, 2022 · House Jun 5, 2022
How they voted
21–12
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 37
Jun 2, 2022
D
Democratic11
63% Yea
R
Republican26
53% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Amendments
3
Jun 5, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 83, nays 17, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
Jun 2, 2022
Introduced
Received from the Senate with amendments.
lower
Jun 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 22 yeas and 12 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 19, 2022
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments.
upper
May 4, 2022
Committee
Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
upper
May 2, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 77, nays 16. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 19, 2022
Introduced
Reported with amendments (10-0).
lower
Mar 14, 2022
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Mar 4, 2022
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Tanner Magee
RRepublican
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