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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 647

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Relating to: limiting the recovery of noneconomic damages from a commercial motor vehicle carrier.

Bus and truck Court — Procedure Damage personal injury

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill limits the total amount of noneconomic damages, such as pain and

suffering, that a person may recover from a commercial motor vehicle carrier for

injury, death, or other loss resulting from an act or omission by an employee of the

commercial motor vehicle carrier while acting within the scope of employment to

$1,000,000.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Armstrong (R) , Callahan (R) , Dallman (R) , Donovan (R) , Gundrum (R) , Kurtz (R) , Rettinger (R) , Spiros (R)

1 cosponsors

Tomczyk (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 9, Noes 4

Passed 9–4 Feb 7, 2024 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 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Gundrum, Spiros, Armstrong, Callahan, Donovan, Rettinger, Dallman and Kurtz; cosponsored by Senator Tomczyk

  2. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Jan 9, 2024 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Jan 30, 2024 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  5. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Transportation, Ayes 9, Noes 4

  6. Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  7. Feb 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 by Committee on Rules

  8. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  9. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1