Became Chapter 59 of the Acts of 2016.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-11 | Senate | Senate Rule 20 and Joint Rule 12 suspended |
| 2016-02-11 | Senate | Referred to the committee on the Judiciary |
| 2016-02-11 | House | House concurred |
| 2016-03-03 | Senate | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment |
| 2016-03-03 | Senate | Rules suspended |
| 2016-03-03 | Senate | Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on Ways and Means), ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2016-03-07 | House | Read; and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling |
| 2016-03-14 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting |
| 2016-03-14 | House | Read second and ordered to a third reading |
| 2016-03-14 | House | Rules suspended |
| 2016-03-21 | House | Read third and passed to be engrossed |
| 2016-03-23 | House | Emergency preamble adopted |
| 2016-03-24 | Senate | Emergency preamble adopted |
| 2016-03-24 | House | Enacted |
| 2016-03-24 | Senate | Enacted and laid before the Governor |
| 2016-03-25 | Executive | Signed by the Governor, Chapter 59 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 |
|---|---|
| Favorable | Judiciary (J) |
| Favorable with Amendment | Ways and Means (S) |
| Place in OD | Steering, Policy and Scheduling (H) |
| Correctly Drawn | Bills in the Third Reading (H) |
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.