Amended on the floor and read a second time, on December 10, 2009.
2008–2009 Session
Assembly Joint Resolution 119
Provides for a forfeiture by wrongdoing exception to the hearsay rule by amending the Rules of Evidence.
Sponsors
Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.
In the General Assembly
Sponsor from May 7
Chief co-sponsor from May 7
Chief co-sponsor from Jun 18
Votes
Yeas to nays, as the Legislature recorded them. Committee votes are set in.
General Assembly, adoption79–0
Passed · Jun 25
Senate, amendment21–16
Passed · Dec 10
Who voted how
Yea Bob Smith, Brian P. Stack, Dana L. Redd, Fred H. Madden Jr., James Beach, Jeff Van Drew, Jim Whelan, John A. Girgenti, Joseph F. Vitale, Loretta Weinberg, Nicholas J. Sacco, Nicholas P. Scutari, Paul A. Sarlo, Raymond J. Lesniak, Richard J. Codey, Robert M. Gordon, Ronald L. Rice, Sandra B. Cunningham, Sean T. Kean, Shirley K. Turner, Stephen M. Sweeney
Nay Andrew R. Ciesla, Anthony R. Bucco, Barbara Buono, Bill Baroni, Christopher Bateman, Christopher J. Connors, Gerald Cardinale, Jennifer Beck, Joseph Pennacchio, Kevin J. O'Toole, Michael J. Doherty, Nia H. Gill Esq., Philip E. Haines, Robert W. Singer, Steven V. Oroho, Thomas H. Kean Jr.
Not voting Diane B. Allen, Joseph M. Kyrillos Jr., M. Teresa Ruiz
Amendments
Each amendment offered, and what became of it.
Senate floor amendmentAdopted
Adopted Dec 10
Text
Each version as the Legislature 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 Legislature published it is below.
In the General Assembly May 11 – Jun 25
- May 11Introduced in the General Assembly and sent to Judiciary
- Jun 8Judiciary recommended it
- Read a second time
- Jun 25Passed the General Assembly, 79 to 0
In the Senate Jun 25 – Dec 10
- Jun 25Arrived in the Senate
- Read a second time
- Dec 10Amended on the floor and read a second time