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HB 1720 Flag at half staff or mast; public safety personnel.
Introduced by: Richard L. Anderson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Flag at half staff or mast; public safety personnel. Expands the category of flags required to be flown at half staff or mast when a service member, police officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services provider is killed in the line of duty to include flags flown at any building owned and operated by any political subdivision of the Commonwealth. In addition, the bill adds state correctional officers to the list of public safety personnel for whom such flags are flown at half staff or mast.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103040D pdf
- 01/27/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104759D-H1 pdf
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1720ER) pdf
- 03/13/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/17 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103040D
- 01/07/17 House: Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety
- 01/17/17 House: Assigned MPPS sub: #3
- 01/27/17 House: Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/27/17 House: Committee substitute printed 17104759D-H1
- 01/30/17 House: Read first time
- 01/31/17 House: Read second time
- 01/31/17 House: Committee substitute agreed to 17104759D-H1
- 01/31/17 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1720H1
- 02/01/17 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/17 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 02/02/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/02/17 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/13/17 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/17 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Read third time
- 02/16/17 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/16/17 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/16/17 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/17 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/20/17 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/17 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (95-Y 0-N)
- 02/23/17 House: Enrolled
- 02/23/17 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1720ER)
- 02/23/17 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/24/17 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/28/17 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- 02/28/17 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- 03/13/17 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 344 (effective 7/1/17)
- 03/13/17 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0344)