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2005 SESSION
HB 2708 Jury duty; breast-feeding mothers exempt upon written request.
Introduced by: Mark D. Sickles | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Jury duty; breast-feeding mothers exempt upon request. Provides that a mother who is breast-feeding a child may be exempted from jury duty upon her request. The mother need not be "necessarily and personally responsible for a child or children 16 years of age or younger requiring continuous care . . . during normal court hours" as the existing statute provides.
FULL TEXT
- 01/12/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 054309510 pdf
- 01/26/05 House: Printed as engrossed 054309510-E pdf
- 02/24/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2708ER) pdf
- 03/24/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/12/05 House: Prefiled & ordered printed; offered 01/12/05 054309510
- 01/12/05 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/21/05 House: Reported from C. J. with amendment (14-Y 3-N)
- 01/25/05 House: Read first time
- 01/26/05 House: Read second time
- 01/26/05 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/26/05 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB2708E
- 01/26/05 House: Printed as engrossed 054309510-E
- 01/27/05 House: Read third time and passed House (86-Y 10-N)
- 01/27/05 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (86-Y 10-N)
- 01/27/05 House: Communicated to Senate
- 01/28/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/28/05 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/09/05 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (10-Y 3-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/11/05 Senate: VOTE: CONST. RDG. DISPENSED R (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: Read third time
- 02/14/05 Senate: Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/14/05 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (36-Y 4-N)
- 02/24/05 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2708ER)
- 02/24/05 House: Enrolled
- 02/24/05 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/25/05 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/20/05 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 195 (effective 7/1/05)
- 03/24/05 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195)