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Veterans committee advances several bills; multiple roll calls record unanimous or near‑unanimous recommendations
Summary
The Committee on Veteran Affairs adopted committee substitutes and recommended several bills for calendars, recorded as largely unanimous (four ayes, no nays) in roll calls. Some bills were reported out to calendars while others were left pending.
The Committee on Veteran Affairs held roll calls and moved multiple bills on Wednesday, adopting committee substitutes and recommending measures for various Senate calendars. Several motions passed with recorded tallies of four ayes and no nays; other bills were left pending.
Chairman Joan Hancock presided as senators moved adoption of committee substitutes and then recommended bills to the full Senate. Where recorded, the committee’s roll calls repeatedly registered four ayes and no nays and the chair announced the bills “does pass” or “be recommended” for calendars.
Key committee actions recorded in the hearing record:
- Senate Bill 651: Committee adopted the committee substitute; a subsequent motion that SB 651 “does pass” carried and the committee recommended the bill for a local uncontested calendar. The chair announced “there being 4 ayes and no nays, Senate Bill 651 does pass.”
- Senate Bill 897 (committee substitute): The committee substitute was adopted and the committee recommended the substitute for the local and contest calendar after a motion passed with “4 ayes and no nays.”
- Senate Bill 11 97: After discussion earlier in the hearing, the committee reported SB 11 97 back to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass and be printed; the roll call recorded four ayes and no nays and the chair moved it to the local and contested calendars.
- Senate Bill 18 14: Senator Hancock moved that SB 18 14 be reported with a recommendation that it do pass; the clerk’s roll call recorded four ayes and no nays and the committee recommended the bill for the local and uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 12 71: The committee adopted a committee substitute for SB 12 71 earlier in the hearing, but later left the bill pending after discussion. A subsequent motion recommending the committee substitute to the full Senate carried at the clerk’s roll call, but committee minutes show the bill was left pending for further consideration.
Not all roll calls listed individual votes for every senator; the committee clerk called the roll and the chair announced the result and tallies. Where individual responses were audible in the transcript, members answered “Aye” when called; the record repeatedly shows four affirmative responses and no recorded negatives. The chair closed committee business and recessed following these actions.
