IN SB0384 | 2020 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-10 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
Pending: House Elections and Apportionment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2020 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-02-10 - First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment
Pending: House Elections and Apportionment Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [PDF]
Summary
Filling vacancies. Provides that in order for a precinct committeeman or a precinct vice committeeman (exercising the precinct committeeman's proxy) to participate in a caucus to fill a vacancy, the committeeman or vice committeeman must be entitled to vote for the office for which a successor is to be selected in the caucus. Makes a technical correction.
Title
Filling vacancies.
Sponsors
| Sen. Aaron Freeman [R] | Sen. Jack Sandlin [R] | Sen. Mike Gaskill [R] | Sen. John Crane [R] |
| Sen. Eric Bassler [R] | Rep. Timothy Wesco [R] |
Roll Calls
2020-01-28 - Senate - Senate - Third reading (Y: 43 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-16 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-16 - Senate - Senate - Committee Vote (Y: 8 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-10 | House | First reading: referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment |
| 2020-01-29 | Senate | Referred to the House |
| 2020-01-28 | Senate | House sponsor: Representative Wesco |
| 2020-01-28 | Senate | Third reading: passed; Roll Call 90: yeas 43, nays 7 |
| 2020-01-27 | Senate | Senator Bassler added as coauthor |
| 2020-01-23 | Senate | Second reading: ordered engrossed |
| 2020-01-21 | Senate | Senator Crane added as coauthor |
| 2020-01-21 | Senate | Senator Gaskill added as third author |
| 2020-01-21 | Senate | Senator Sandlin added as second author |
| 2020-01-21 | Senate | Committee report: do pass, adopted |
| 2020-01-13 | Senate | First reading: referred to Committee on Elections |
| 2020-01-13 | Senate | Authored by Senator Freeman |
