2025 Regular Session
HB64
Provides relative to legal representation of sovereign interests of the state (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
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Provides specific authority to the attorney general with respect to the representation of the sovereign interests of the state.
Empowering the attorney general to defend against federal overreach is vitally important - a lesson learned during the covid era.
Recorded floor votes
4 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 21, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 64 AMENDMENT # 3328 BY JORDAN MOTION TO ADOPT (#545)
Failed
27 yea–64 nay · 14 absent
May 21, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 64 FINAL PASSAGE (#546)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
72 yea–25 nay · 8 absent
June 8, 2025 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 64 FINAL PASSAGE (#683)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
27 yea–11 nay · 1 absent
June 9, 2025 · House
House Vote on HB 64 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#993)
Passed
77 yea–22 nay · 6 absent
Committee referrals
May 28, 2025 · Senate
Judiciary C
March 14, 2025 · House
Judiciary
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 06/11/2025.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 237.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Read by title, roll called, yeas 77, nays 22, Senate amendments concurred in.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 06/09/2025.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. The amended bill was read by title, passed by a vote of 27 yeas and 11 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 72, nays 25. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
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House Called from the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/21/2025.
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House Notice given.
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House Read by title, returned to the calendar.
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/20/2025.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (15-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 3/14/2025.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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House Prefiled.