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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 7159

AN ACT CREATING YELLOW ENVELOPES TO PROMOTE ACCOMMODATION AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FIRST RESPONDERS AND PERSONS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND INCREASING AWARENESS OF BLUE AND YELLOW ENVELOPES AMONG FIRST RESPONDERS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on April 7, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To require (1) the Commission on Women, Children, Seniors, Equity and Opportunity to develop and make available yellow envelopes to promote accommodation and communication between first responders and persons with cognitive impairments or physical disabilities, and (2) various first responder trainings to include information about the blue and yellow envelopes.

Sponsors

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

In the House of Representatives

8 co-sponsors

Mark DeCaprio, William Heffernan, Vincent J. Candelora, Aundre Bumgardner, Tami Zawistowski, Eleni Kavros DeGraw, Anthony L. Nolan, Tim Ackert

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Paul Cicarella

    Its course

    March 5 to April 7, 2025, 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 action9 actions on 6 days

    In the House of RepresentativesMar 5 to Apr 7 · stopped33 days

    Transportation CommitteeMar 5 to Mar 1914 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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    What happened

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

    In the House of Representatives Mar 5 – Mar 19

    1. Mar 5Introduced and sent to Transportation Committee
    2. Mar 6Heard in Transportation Committee
    3. Mar 19Transportation Committee recommended a substitute for it
    All 9 actions, as published
    1. Mar 5REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
    2. Mar 6PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
    3. Mar 19Joint Favorable SubstituteBoth houses
    4. Mar 21FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
    5. Mar 31REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
    6. Apr 7RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
    7. Apr 7FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives
    8. Apr 7HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBERHouse of Representatives
    9. Apr 7FILE NO.Both houses