LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to the election of home rule charter commissions
This bill amends the process for electing home rule charter commissions by adding a provision to set an effective date for the election. It directly affects local governments in jurisdictions that use home rule charters and their residents who would vote in these elections. The key mechanism is a specific instruction to include language in the petition that establishes when the new election rules take effect. The bill also sets the effective date for the entire act to be January 1, 2025.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Mar 1, 2024
Signed Jun 19, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 23, 2024 · House Apr 29, 2024
How they voted
31–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 38
May 23, 2024
D
Democratic12
75% Yea
R
Republican26
84% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
5
Committee
5
May 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 93, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 32 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 13, 2024
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 8, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
Apr 29, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 102, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 18, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (14-0).
lower
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
Mar 1, 2024
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Daryl Deshotel
RRepublican
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