PUBLIC HEALTH: Provides relative to seafood safety. (gov sig) (EN INCREASE GF EX See Note)
SB 62 amends the state's seafood safety regulations by adjusting specific numerical limits within the law. The bill reduces the required number of seafood safety inspections from five to one and lowers associated monetary thresholds from ten thousand to two thousand five hundred dollars. These changes directly affect the Department of Health and Welfare, which oversees seafood safety enforcement. By modifying these specific figures, the legislation alters the frequency and cost parameters for regulatory oversight without changing the overall goal of ensuring seafood safety.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
House Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Feb 27, 2024
Signed Jun 18, 2024
Floor votes · Senate Apr 30, 2024 · House May 30, 2024
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
Apr 30, 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
32
Key actions
9
Committee
8
Amendments
1
May 31, 2024
Upper · Passed
Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays.
upper
May 30, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, ordered to the Senate.
lower
May 29, 2024
Introduced
Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
lower
May 28, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (17-0). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
lower
May 22, 2024
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 21, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (8-0). To be recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
May 9, 2024
Committee
Read by title, recommitted to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment.
lower
May 9, 2024
Lower · Passed
Discharged from the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
May 6, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
lower
Apr 30, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title and passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays; ordered reengrossed and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
Apr 24, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
upper
Apr 16, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted.
upper
Mar 27, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments.
upper
Mar 11, 2024
Committee
Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Health and Welfare.
upper
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
MF
Mike Fési
RRepublican
Co
Patrick Connick
RRepublican
Co
Robert Allain
RRepublican
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