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House advances multiple Senate bills, amends epinephrine-in-schools measure
Summary
The Arizona House on April 4 advanced several Senate bills, including amending a measure on epinephrine delivery systems in schools; several bills were retained on the calendar for later consideration.
The Arizona House of Representatives on April 4 advanced multiple Senate bills after consideration in the Committee of the Whole, adopting amendments on several measures and retaining others on the calendar.
Most notably, the House adopted a floor amendment to Senate Bill 14-40 and gave the bill a "do pass" recommendation as amended. Representative Wilby offered the floor amendment that "brings forth an emergent or, a user clause and clearly defines exactly what type of epinephrine delivery system we're speaking of while at school," and the House approved the amendment and recommended the bill as amended. Representative Grass moved the floor motion recommending the bill for passage and said the change "is designed to give flexibility to schools to administer epinephrine in the various ways that it can be delivered." The committee report later recorded that SB 14-40 "do pass as amended." (Committee report read on the floor.)
Other committee recommendations announced and adopted on the floor included:
- SB 11-51 (transportation): Committee recommended "do pass as amended." Representative Martinez moved the committee recommendation and amendments were adopted on the floor.
- SB 13-33 (health and human services): Committee recommended "do pass as amended." Representative Bliss moved the committee recommendation and related committee and floor amendments were adopted; Representative Saul Hamilton spoke in support.
- SB 13-77 (health and human services): Committee recommended "do pass." Representative Bliss moved the recommendation.
- SB 16-59 (education): Committee recommended "do pass." Representative Gress explained the bill would allow school or district leaders to request information from the State Board of Education about allegations against certificated or noncertificated employees who resigned before an SBE investigation concluded.
- SB 10-27 (science and technology): Committee recommended "do pass as amended;" the amendment removed telecommunications software and hardware that originates from the People’s Republic of China.
- SB 10-72 (health and human services), SB 11-29 (transportation, as amended) and other committee bills were also reported "do pass" as indicated in committee reports and on the floor.
Several bills were explicitly retained on the calendar for later action: SB 14-24, SB 14-93, SB 11-42, SB 13-50 and others the chair or clerk listed as "retained on the calendar." The clerk recorded the committee reports and the House then adopted the committee reports and ordered the bills to be properly assigned (for engrossing, third reading, or retained status as indicated).
Votes, tallies and formal roll-call counts were not read into the record for each bill in the transcript excerpt; floor procedure on the motions generally proceeded by voice vote ("all those in favor say aye; all opposed say nay"), followed by the chair stating that the "ayes have it." The clerk recorded overall attendance at one point as "51 present, 5 absent, 4 excused." The transcript records that the Committee of the Whole recommended the listed bills and that the House adopted the committee reports.
The floor actions packets included committee amendments and floor amendments; where floor amendments were offered the House voted and recorded that the amendments "have it" after voice vote. Representative Collin raised a substantive floor objection on SB 11-29 concerning campaign finance implications and urged colleagues to vote no; Representative Blackman and others moved the committee amendments and the bill ultimately carried a do-pass recommendation as amended.
No final engrossed bill numbers, specific vote tallies by member, or recorded roll-call tallies for each bill were provided in the transcript excerpt; where the transcript supplied only a voice vote the report states the outcome as the chair announced it (e.g., "the ayes have it").
Ending
The House adopted the committee of the whole reports and assigned bills for engrossing, third reading, or retention on the calendar as the clerk reported. Several measures were placed on third reading for future floor action; others were retained for later consideration.
