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Votes at a glance: State and Local Government Committee (selected items)
Summary
Summary of bills taken up in committee, with outcomes and key action notes for each item recorded during the hearing.
This is a concise, committee-level summary of recorded actions and outcomes from the State and Local Government Committee meeting.
- Consent calendar: Passed by voice/roll call; clerk recorded 9 ayes.
- SB 7 54 (courthouse revitalization): Passed committee; the bill extends the courthouse revitalization program and includes a sunset in 2028; moved to Finance. (Recorded: 9 ayes.)
- SB 4 11 (soil and water conservation vehicle coverage): Passed committee; bill clarifies state liability coverage for soil and water conservation district employees who drive for work; moved to calendar. (Recorded: 9 ayes.)
- SB 15 9 (internet ballot tabulation ban, amended as SB 159): Amendment adopted; bill passed committee and moved to calendar. (Recorded: committee tally 7 ayes, 1 no, 1 present not voting.)
- SB 4 60 / SB 160 (ambulance services study): Passed as amended to require a TASAR/TA study of ambulance service provision, contracts, and funding gaps; moved to calendar. (Recorded: unanimous/voice aye.)
- SB 11 15 (private-prison death-rate threshold and population reductions): Passed committee and moved to calendar. (Recorded: 9 ayes.)
- SB 11 39 (developer third-party utility reviewers): Passed committee and moved to finance. (Recorded: 7 ayes, 1 pass.)
- SB 9 53 (public safety bridge retirement benefits): Passed committee and moved to finance. (Recorded: 8 ayes.)
- SB 3 36 (voting-rights restoration): Rolled one week for further drafting and coordination with other bills.
- SB 12 28 (jails as satellite polling locations): Failed in committee (3 ayes, 5 noes).
- SB 6 25 (State Building Commission advertising waiver clarification): Passed committee and moved to calendar. (Recorded: 8 ayes, 1 no.)
- SB 6 22 (alcohol-related road death records and confidentiality): Amendment adopted; bill passed committee and moved to calendar.
- SB 6 23 (Open Records Council facilitation duties): Passed committee; moved to calendar.
- SB 3 65 (Board of Zoning Appeals training, mandatory): Amendment adopted and bill passed; moved to calendar.
- SB 7 73 (vested property rights pause during litigation): Passed committee and moved to calendar.
- SB 7 (historic-commission limitation bill): Passed committee as amended (6 ayes, 3 noes); sponsor and commission representatives discussed unintended consequences; language was amended in committee.
- Additional housekeeping and ceremonial items: several naming resolutions and technical bills passed on voice vote or roll call and were moved to the calendar as noted above.
For specifics (vote tallies, movers/seconds, and recorded roll calls) see the committee minutes and roll calls maintained by the clerk.
