2026 Regular Session
HB579
Provides relative to the rights of survivors of sexual assault
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.
Recorded floor votes
3 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
May 6, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 579 FINAL PASSAGE (#903)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
98 yea–0 nay · 7 absent
May 26, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 579 FINAL PASSAGE (#1263)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
35 yea–0 nay · 4 absent
May 29, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 579 CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENTS (#1689)
Passed
97 yea–0 nay · 8 absent
Committee referrals
May 7, 2026 · Senate
Judiciary B
February 26, 2026 · 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: 06/08/2026.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 815.
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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 97, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
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House Scheduled for concurrence on 05/29/2026.
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House Received from the Senate with amendments.
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Senate Rules suspended. Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 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 Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported with amendments.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary B.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/06/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (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 2/27/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
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House Prefiled.