Became Chapter 404 of the Acts of 2016.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-18 | House | Reported from the committee on The Judiciary |
| 2015-11-18 | House | New draft of H1493 |
| 2015-11-18 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 2016-07-21 | House | Committee recommended ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2016-07-21 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2016-07-21 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2016-07-21 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2016-09-22 | House | Read third, amended and passed to be engrossed |
| 2016-09-26 | Senate | Read; and referred to the committee on Senate Ways and Means |
| 2016-12-29 | Senate | Committee recommended ought to pass |
| 2016-12-29 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2016-12-29 | Senate | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2017-01-03 | Senate | Taken out of the Orders of the Day |
| 2017-01-03 | Senate | Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed |
| 2017-01-03 | House | Enacted |
| 2017-01-03 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2017-01-11 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 404 of the Acts of 2016 |
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
| Action | Committee |
|---|---|
| Redraft | Judiciary (J) |
| Favorable | Ways and Means (H) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (H) |
| Favorable | Ways and Means (S) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (S) |
Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.