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HB 549 Overgrown vegetation; local authority.
Introduced by: Jeion A. Ward | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Overgrown vegetation; local authority. Authorizes any locality within Planning District 23 to include provisions for cutting overgrown shrubs, trees, and other such vegetation in an ordinance requiring certain landowners to cut the grass, weeds, and other foreign growth on certain property. This bill is identical to SB 340.
FULL TEXT
- 01/05/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102310D pdf | impact statement
- 02/17/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB549ER) pdf
- 02/24/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/05/20 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102310D
- 01/05/20 House: Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
- 01/17/20 House: Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use
- 01/24/20 House: Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (19-Y 3-N)
- 01/28/20 House: Read first time
- 01/29/20 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/30/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/20 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/03/20 House: Read third time and passed House (72-Y 26-N 1-A)
- 02/03/20 House: VOTE: Passage (72-Y 26-N 1-A)
- 02/04/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/20 Senate: Referred to Committee on Local Government
- 02/10/20 Senate: Reported from Local Government with amendment (13-Y 1-N)
- 02/11/20 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/12/20 Senate: Read third time
- 02/12/20 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/12/20 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/12/20 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/12/20 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (31-Y 9-N)
- 02/14/20 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/14/20 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (60-Y 36-N)
- 02/14/20 House: VOTE: Adoption (60-Y 36-N)
- 02/17/20 House: Enrolled
- 02/17/20 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB549ER)
- 02/17/20 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/17/20 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/18/20 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on Februry 18, 2020
- 02/18/20 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 25, 2020
- 02/24/20 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 13 (effective 7/1/20)
- 02/24/20 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0013)