CIVIL/PROCEDURE: Provides relative to default judgments
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
May 2023
Introduced Jan 12, 2023
Signed May 30, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 18, 2023 · House Apr 17, 2023
How they voted
28–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 32
May 18, 2023
D
Democratic10
90% Yea
R
Republican22
86% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
20
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 18, 2023
Upper · Passed
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 3, 2023
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 2, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 17, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 12, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (15-0).
lower
Apr 10, 2023
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
Jan 12, 2023
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Civil Law and Procedure.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Nicholas Muscarello
RRepublican
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