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CS/CS/SB 306: Catalytic Converters

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice ; Criminal Justice ; Boyd ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Hooper ; Stewart

Catalytic Converters; Designating the “Catalytic Converter Antitheft Act”; prohibiting a person from knowingly purchasing a detached catalytic converter unless he or she is a registered secondary metals recycler; prohibiting a person from knowingly importing, manufacturing, purchasing for a certain purpose, selling, offering for sale, or installing or reinstalling a counterfeit, fake, or nonfunctional catalytic converter; prohibiting a secondary metals recycler from processing or removing a detached catalytic converter from the recycler’s place of business for a specified number of days, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2023
 Last Action: 5/25/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-114
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Senate Committee References:
  1. Criminal Justice (CJ)
  2. Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (ACJ)
  3. Fiscal Policy (FP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/19/2023 Senate • Filed
1/26/2023 Senate • Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
2/6/2023 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/14/23, 1:00 pm, 37 Senate Building
2/14/2023 Senate • CS by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
2/15/2023 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2/16/2023 Senate • Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
3/7/2023 Senate • Introduced
• CS by Criminal Justice read 1st time -SJ 113
3/9/2023 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 03/14/23, 1:30 pm, 37 Senate Building
3/14/2023 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
3/16/2023 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Now in Fiscal Policy
3/21/2023 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time
3/23/2023 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 03/28/23, 8:30 am, 110 Senate Building
3/28/2023 Senate • Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 19 NAYS 0
3/29/2023 Senate • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
3/30/2023 Senate • Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/04/23
4/4/2023 Senate • Read 2nd time -SJ 328
• Read 3rd time -SJ 329
• CS passed; YEAS 39 NAYS 0 -SJ 329
• Immediately certified -SJ 335
4/5/2023 House • In Messages
4/13/2023 House • Bill referred to House Calendar
• Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/18/2023)
• 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 2)
4/18/2023 House • Substituted for CS/HB 185
• Read 2nd time
• Placed on 3rd reading
• Added to Third Reading Calendar
4/19/2023 House • Read 3rd time
• CS passed; YEAS 105, NAYS 2
4/19/2023 Senate • Ordered enrolled
5/23/2023 • Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
5/24/2023 • Approved by Governor
5/25/2023 • Chapter No. 2023-114