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2019 Regular Session

Senate Bill 642

AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on April 17, 2019. The 2019 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To define "online platform", require such platform to make publicly available copies of electioneering communications and contact information at such platform for such communications and impose a rebuttable presumption that certain content created by or for such platform is not an independent expenditure if displayed during the ninety days prior to a primary or election.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

1 co-sponsor

Matthew L. Lesser

Its course

January 25 to April 17, 2019, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action12 actions on 9 days

In the SenateJan 25 to Apr 17 · stopped82 days

Government Administration and Elections CommitteeJan 25 to Mar 2963 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 25 – Mar 29

  1. Jan 25Introduced and sent to Government Administration and Elections Committee
  2. Mar 19Drafted as a bill by Government Administration and Elections Committee
  3. Mar 20Sent to Government Administration and Elections Committee
  4. Mar 21Heard in Government Administration and Elections Committee
  5. Mar 29Government Administration and Elections Committee recommended it
All 12 actions, as published
  1. Jan 25REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  2. Mar 19DRAFTED BY COMMITTEEBoth houses
  3. Mar 20REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  4. Mar 21PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
  5. Mar 29Joint FavorableBoth houses
  6. Apr 1FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
  7. Feb 6Vote to DraftBoth houses
  8. Apr 11REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
  9. Apr 17RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
  10. Apr 17FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.Senate
  11. Apr 17SENATE CALENDAR NUMBERSenate
  12. Apr 17FILE NO.Both houses