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Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session

AR 4

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Relating to: prohibiting the Committee on Assembly Organization from entering into contracts for private legal services and authorizing the expenditure of public funds for private legal services related to legislative redistricting.

Attorney Legislature — Committees Redistricting

  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

The resolution prohibits the Committee on Assembly Organization from

entering into any contract for private legal services or authorizing the expenditure

of public funds to pay for private legal services related to legislative redistricting.

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 35, Noes 62

Failed 35–62 Feb 8, 2017 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. Feb 8, 2017 · Assembly

    Introduced privileged by Representative Kessler

  2. Feb 8, 2017 · Assembly

    Read and referred to Committee on Assembly Organization

  3. Feb 8, 2017 · Assembly

    Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Assembly Organization and take up, Ayes 35, Noes 62

  4. Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly

    Failed to adopt pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1