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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 613

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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

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: Tomczyk (R)

8 cosponsors

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

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 2

Passed 5–2 Feb 15, 2024 official source full page

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

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 21–11 Feb 20, 2024 official source full page

Full history

  1. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

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

  2. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety

  3. Nov 8, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Kurtz added as a cosponsor

  4. Jan 30, 2024 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Feb 15, 2024 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Feb 15, 2024 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety, Ayes 5, Noes 2

  7. Feb 15, 2024 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  8. Feb 19, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-20-2024 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  9. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  10. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 21, Noes 11

  11. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  12. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  13. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Read

  14. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from Senate message and take up

  15. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  16. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  19. Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Read a second time

  21. Feb 20, 2024 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  22. Feb 21, 2024 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  23. Feb 29, 2024 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  24. Mar 26, 2024 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2024

  25. Mar 29, 2024 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 3-29-2024

  26. May 13, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-14-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  27. May 14, 2024 · Senate

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82