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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AR 18

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Relating to: prohibiting certain contributions to legislative campaign committees and personal campaign committees.

Corporation Elections — Campaign expense Legislature — Member Legislature — Rules — Assembly

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Adopted, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This resolution amends the assembly rules to provide that no legislative

campaign committee and no personal campaign committee of a member may accept

a contribution from a corporation incorporated outside of the United States.

Sponsors

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Assembly Organization and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

Failed 36–61 Nov 3, 2015 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Introduced privileged by Representatives Jorgensen, Barca, Shankland and Zamarripa

  2. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Read and referred to Committee on Assembly Organization

  3. Nov 3, 2015 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Assembly Organization and take up, Ayes 36, Noes 61

  4. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1