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Votes at a glance: Committee on Business & Commerce reports several bills favorably and sends items to calendars
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Summary
The Committee on Business & Commerce voted on a series of bills at the start of the hearing. Multiple committee substitutes were adopted and several bills were favorably reported to the full Senate or to local/uncontested calendars; one bill had a divided vote. Details and recorded committee actions follow.
At the start of the meeting the Committee on Business & Commerce completed a set of procedural roll‑call votes on a group of pending bills. Committee leadership presented committee substitutes where applicable and then moved each bill for favorable reporting or other procedural disposition. The committee recorded the outcomes below; the committee generally moved bills to the full Senate or to the local and uncontested calendar as noted.
Votes at a glance
- Senate Bill 1405 (Sen. Nichols): Committee substitute adopted; committee substitute favorably reported to the full Senate (committee recorded adoption and favorable report). Motion presented by Senator King; committee clerk called the roll. (No final vote tally printed in hearing transcript excerpt.)
- Senate Bill 1762 (Sen. Blanco): Committee substitute adopted; committee substitute favorably reported with objections and sent to local and uncontested calendar. Motion by Senator King; roll called; recorded as 9 ayes, 0 nays in transcript.
- Senate Bill 1977 (Sen. Kolkher): Committee substitute adopted; committee substitute favorably reported with objections and sent to local uncontested calendar. Motion by Senator King; recorded as 9 ayes, 0 nays in transcript.
- Senate Bill 819 (Sen. Kolkers): Committee substitute adopted; committee substitute favorably reported to the full Senate. The transcript records a divided committee vote for this item: “7 ayes and 3 nays.”
- Senate Bill 2077 (Sen. Zaffirini): Committee substitute adopted; reported favorably to local and uncontested calendar. Transcript records “10 ayes and 0 nays.”
- Senate Bill 2148 (Sen. Hall): Committee moved and reported favorably to the full Senate; transcript records the item as favorably reported and sent to the local uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 2321 (Sen. King): Committee moved and reported favorably; committee recorded the motion and favorable report.
- Senate Bill 1968 (Sen. Campbell): Committee substitute adopted and favorably reported; motion recorded as adopted and the committee recommended local and uncontested calendars.
Procedural notes: In each case the chair laid out the committee substitute when applicable, a member (commonly Senator King) moved the committee substitute be reported favorably or be printed, and the clerk called the roll. Some votes were recorded as unanimous or near‑unanimous in the hearing transcript; SB819 recorded a 7–3 split. The committee treated these items as pending business at the start of the hearing and disposed of them before moving to SB231 and longer presentations.
No contested floor‑level action or final Senate passage occurred during this committee hearing; these were committee‑level reports and calendar recommendations.
