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Committee of the Whole: key second-reading votes and committee actions
Summary
Several bills and resolutions advanced on second reading in the Committee of the Whole. This roundup lists the primary measures, sponsors, and recorded vote tallies.
The Montana House Committee of the Whole advanced a package of bills and resolutions on second reading. The following is a summary of the measures presented on the floor and the recorded second-reading outcomes recorded in the transcript.
Votes at a glance (measure — sponsor — result, recorded tally):
- HJ 29 (recognizing Montana-Taiwan relations) — Lear — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 100 ayes. - HJ 36 (encouraging cursive instruction in schools) — Worth/Wirth — Passed second reading; recorded 81 ayes, 19 noes. - HJ 33 (urging Congress on trigger leads) — Falk — Passed second reading; recorded 100 ayes. - HB 313 (public swimming pool grant program) — Tuss — Passed second reading; recorded 64 ayes, 36 noes. - HB 864 (education companion/House Bill 2 coordination) — Beatty — Passed second reading; recorded 91 ayes, 9 noes. - HB 861 (K–12 digital toolkit appropriation) — Tillman — Passed second reading; recorded 81 ayes, 19 noes. - HB 833 (corrections capacity appropriation) — Jay Fitzpatrick — Passed second reading; recorded 91 ayes, 9 noes. - HB 918 (Olmstead reporting requirement for public health and human services) — Mercer — Passed second reading; recorded 96 ayes, 4 noes. - HB 913 (judiciary and interim studies) — Nave — Passed as twice-amended second reading; recorded 98 ayes, 2 noes. - HB 340 (teacher training program) — Romano — Passed second reading; recorded 64 ayes, 36 noes. - HB 483 (Right Back Act — school funding/property tax changes) — Sprunger — Passed second reading; recorded 90 ayes, 10 noes.
Other procedural motions recorded on the floor included committee reports recommending pass/concur actions for multiple bills and several failed and successful motions to place bills on the floor or refer to committees. For example, Majority Leader Fitzpatrick moved to re-refer HB 950 (establishing a Montana trade office in Israel) to Appropriations; that motion was ordered without objection. A "blast" motion to bring HB 930 from Fish, Wildlife & Parks to the floor failed (recorded 43 ayes, 49 noes).
These second-reading approvals mean the Committee of the Whole recommended passage to the full House; many measures will still require final floor action and any further amendments before becoming law.
