Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Committee on Local Government reports a slate of Senate bills to the full Senate; several recommended for local calendar
Summary
The Senate Committee on Local Government voted to report a series of Senate bills to the full Senate during a procedural meeting that included committee-substitute adoptions and recommendations for the local and uncontested calendar. Most measures were approved on voice or recorded roll calls with little substantive debate.
The Senate Committee on Local Government met in a procedural session to consider and report multiple Senate bills to the full Senate, adopting several committee substitutes and recommending a number of measures for the local and uncontested calendar.
The committee, chaired by Chairman Bettencourt, recorded votes on more than a dozen bills. Most motions were procedural (adopt committee substitute; report bill to full Senate) and carried by margins shown in the roll calls. Several bills were explicitly moved to the ‘‘local and uncontested’’ calendar.
Why it matters: reporting a bill out of committee with a committee substitute and recommending it for the local and uncontested calendar advances the measures toward floor consideration with limited further amendment in committee. The session included few substantive debates; the…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
