ENVIRONMENT/LITTERING: Provides a time limitation for citing intentional and simple littering violations
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
May 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 28, 2023
Signed Jun 6, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2023 · House May 9, 2023
How they voted
32–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 35
May 26, 2023
D
Democratic12
83% Yea
R
Republican23
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Amendments
1
May 26, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 24, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 23, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 9, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 8, 2023
Introduced
Read by title, amended, returned to the calendar.
lower
Apr 26, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (12-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
Mar 28, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Phillip DeVillier
RRepublican
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