AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - STATE BUILDING CODE (Amends the number of communities who may combine to appoint a building official and prohibits requiring a building official to perform duties not in the building code when building code duties are pending.)
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2019
Committee Review
May 2019
Senate Passage
May 2019
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 21, 2019
Last action May 3, 2019
Floor votes · Senate May 2, 2019
How they voted
28–5
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 35
May 2, 2019
D
Democratic30
93% Yea
R
Republican5
100% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
8
Key actions
3
Committee
3
May 3, 2019
Committee
05/03/2019 Referred to House Municipal Government
lower
May 2, 2019
Legislature · Passed
05/02/2019 Senate read and passed
legislature
Apr 25, 2019
Legislature · Passed
04/25/2019 Committee recommends passage
legislature
Apr 11, 2019
Legislature · Passed
04/11/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
legislature
Mar 21, 2019
Introduced
03/21/2019 Introduced, referred to Senate Housing and Municipal Government
legislature
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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