AIRCRAFT/AVIATION: Requires persons being transported offshore by aircraft wear life jackets equipped with personal locator beacons
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 30, 2023
Signed Jun 7, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 26, 2023 · House Apr 18, 2023
How they voted
29–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 32
May 26, 2023
D
Democratic10
80% Yea
R
Republican22
95% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 31, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 96, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 26, 2023
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. The amended bill was 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 22, 2023
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 18, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Apr 18, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 100, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 12, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (12-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
Mar 30, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Commerce.
lower
1 primary · 56 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Troy Romero
RRepublican
Co
Adrian Fisher
DDemocratic
Co
Aimee Freeman
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Freiberg
RRepublican
Co
Barry Ivey
RRepublican
Co
BA
Beryl Amedée
RRepublican
Co
Candace Newell
DDemocratic
Co
Chad Brown
DDemocratic
Co
Chuck Owen
RRepublican
Co
Clay Schexnayder
RRepublican
Co
Daryl Deshotel
RRepublican
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