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Senate Finance & Claims: committee executive actions and roll-call outcomes
Summary
The committee completed executive action on several bills heard earlier in the session and on numerous Senate bills; the record shows roll-call and voice votes with outcomes and tallies where reported.
After hearings, the Senate Finance & Claims Committee moved into executive action on a list of bills heard that morning and several Senate bills. The committee recorded roll-call and voice votes on multiple measures, including concurrence in House bills and dispositions of Senate bills.
Key outcomes recorded in the executive-action portion of the transcript include:
- House Bill 15 (K-12 inflation adjustments): Concurred by the committee; roll-call recorded as "18 yes, 4 no" on the concurrence motion.
- House Bill 28 (public charter school district clarifications): Concurred by committee on voice vote (proxies assumed as yes).
- House Bill 18 (deposit of non-levy revenue to SCEPTER account): Concurred by committee on voice vote.
- House Bill 234 (extension of lead-mitigation appropriation): Concurred by committee on voice vote; one senator (Lehi) recorded as a no for the voice vote, proxies assumed yes.
- House Bill 572 (Montana Correctional Enterprises changes): Concurred by committee on voice vote; committee designated a senator to carry the bill on the floor.
Senate bills and committee actions reported in executive action:
- Senate Bill 95 (funding for suicide-prevention work in Military Affairs): Passed Finance & Claims with recorded vote "12 yes, 10 no" and was placed to go back on third reading.
- Senate Bill 301 (utility lines and facility laws) was amended in committee and the amended measure was moved forward by the committee.
- Senate Bill 308 (workers' compensation parity): Motion to pass failed; the committee ultimately tabled SB 308 after a roll call and subsequent motion to reverse the table.
- Senate Bill 345 (workers' compensation evidentiary standards): Passed the committee on a voice vote.
- Senate Bill 471 (pedestrian crossing revisions with amendment): Passed the committee with a recorded tally shown as "12 yes, 10 no." The committee noted the amendment brought the fiscal note to $0.
- Senate Bill 394: Held for further amendment work.
The executive-action session adjourned with plans to continue executive action the following day.
