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House clerk reads dozens of bills on first reading and refers them to committees
Summary
The House of Representatives convened for a reading of bills and resolutions on first reading; the clerk read dozens of measures and announced committee referrals with no recorded debate or roll-call votes, and the chamber recessed until 2 p.m. Monday.
The House of Representatives convened and the House clerk (unnamed) read dozens of bills and resolutions on first reading and announced their referral to the committees named in the text, the clerk said.
The reading began with HB 33 01 by Reynolds, described as relating to establishing a permanent public school fund to reduce school-district maintenance-and-operations ad valorem taxes and to provide funding for public school kindergarten programs. The clerk read a sequence of bills and resolutions across multiple subject areas — including transportation designations, public education matters, public-health measures, committee referrals on natural resources and insurance, and a range of local memorial highway designations — and referred each item to the committee listed after the bill description. The session record shows committee referrals but no debate or recorded roll-call votes on these first-reading items.
Notable measures read and referred include HB 33 04 (by Low), "relating to the prohibition on vaccine mandates," referred to the committee on Public Health; HB 33 18 (by King), "relating to access to individualized investigational treatments for patients with life‑threatening or severely debilitating illnesses," referred to Public Health; HB 34 06 (by Rodriguez Ramos), "relating to medical accuracy and informational materials given to a woman seeking an abortion," referred to Public Health; and HB 33 52 (by King), "relating to inclusion of information on construction and maintenance zones in driver-education curriculum," referred to Licensing and Administrative Procedures. Many other bills covering topics such as ad valorem tax exemptions, county and municipal authority, judicial and criminal-justice matters, and water and natural‑resources policy were read in full and sent to standing or subcommittees as announced by the clerk.
The clerk's reading functioned as a formal referral step to place the measures on committee dockets; the transcript records the clerk's announcements but does not record motions, individual member statements, or recorded votes on the referrals. Where the clerk named a subcommittee (for example, "Subcommittee on County and Regional Government" or "Subcommittee on Property Tax Appraisals") the transcript lists that subcommittee as the referral destination.
After completing the reading and referrals, the presiding officer (unnamed) recessed the chamber: "The house will stand at ease until 2PM, Monday," the presiding officer said.
Full text and committee destinations for each bill and resolution are included in the House journal and the official docket; the transcript here records the clerk's reading and referral announcements but not subsequent committee action.
