MTR VEHICLE/OFFICE: Provides relative to special identification cards for children
This bill establishes a specific effective date for a law concerning special identification cards for children, setting the implementation to begin on January 1, 2025. It does not create new programs or alter existing rules but serves to finalize the timeline for when the related provisions will take effect. The measure directly impacts the administrative schedule for issuing these identification cards, ensuring they become available to eligible children starting in the new year.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
Apr 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024
Signed Jun 10, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 16, 2024 · House Mar 21, 2024
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 16, 2024
D
Democratic12
91% Yea
R
Republican25
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
23
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 85, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Committee
Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Reported with amendments.
upper
Mar 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 101, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Mar 19, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (13-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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