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Votes at a glance: committee actions and final outcomes from the House State Agencies hearing
Summary
This roundup lists bills acted on during the committee meeting, with motion outcomes recorded in the transcript. Where the transcript did not include a bill number or full detail, the entry notes that information was not specified.
The House State Agencies committee recorded votes and outcomes on a number of bills during the hearing. Below are the items the transcript shows were put to a committee vote, with the outcome recorded at the hearing. When the transcript omitted a full bill number or detailed text, that field is marked “not specified.”
1) Representative John Wardlaw — House Bill 1632 (mechanism to reimburse Game & Fish for licenses given away): Motion to pass made; committee voice vote recorded “noes have it” (motion failed).
2) Representative McCollum — bill to prohibit ranked‑choice voting (bill number not specified in transcript): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
3) Representative Dan Vaught — House Bill 1187 (licensure by endorsement for marriage and family therapists): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
4) Representative Matt Brown — bill to allow agencies to designate an electronic official legal copy of rules (bill number not specified in transcript): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed as amended).
5) Representative Kendra Moore — House Bill 1740 (protecting producer personal data in EID/CVI records): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
6) Representative Childress — Senate Bill 454 (accounting for interest on unclaimed property; auditor’s office): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
7) Representative Tosh — House bill(s) transferring criminal‑detention review coordinator responsibilities to the Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training and related crime‑lab record sharing (bill numbers not specified): Committee voice votes recorded “ayes have it” (motions passed).
8) Representative Beatty — House Bill 1470 (repeal concerning review of IT plans; housekeeping): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
9) Senator Bryant / related sponsors — Senate Bill 443 (home inspectors, appraisers and abstractors; complaint window and FOIA changes): Committee voice vote recorded “ayes have it” (motion passed).
Transcript notes: several other bills were presented with minimal debate and were approved by the committee; where the transcript did not provide a bill number or full title, the entry is noted as “not specified.”
Why it matters: The committee advanced a broad set of bills affecting elections, licensing, agriculture, unclaimed property accounting, housing finance and regulatory oversight. Several items were briefed and passed with little public testimony; others prompted fuller debate and questions from committee members.
What’s next: Each passed bill will move to the House calendar (or, if a Senate bill, continue the interchamber process). Failed measures may be refiled with additional fiscal detail or clarifications in future sessions.
