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Committee reports a slate of bills to local/uncontested calendars; several substitutes adopted
Summary
The Senate Committee on Business & Commerce conducted roll-call votes early in the hearing and reported a series of bills (including several committee substitutes) to the full Senate, mostly by unanimous or near‑unanimous margins. Outcomes below reflect roll calls recorded on the committee transcript.
The Senate Committee on Business & Commerce held roll-call votes early in its hearing and reported multiple bills to the full Senate or to local/uncontested calendars.
Nut graf: The committee recorded a sequence of formal actions — many committee substitutes were adopted and several bills were reported favorably with unanimous or near‑unanimous tallies. The committee clerk called the roll for each motion; the transcript records the vote counts listed below.
Votes at a glance
- Senate Bill 918 — Favorably reported to the full Senate (recommendation: do pass). Roll call recorded as 9 ayes, 0 nays. (Transcript evidence: clerk roll-call, recorded ayes and final tally.)
- Senate Bill 13 43 (listed in transcript as 13 43) — Favorably reported to the full Senate (recommendation: do pass). Roll call recorded as 9 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 213 (committee substitute) — Committee substitute reported; committee recommended do not pass the original and adopt substitute (reported to local/uncontested). Roll call recorded as 9 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 11 72 (committee substitute) — Committee substitute adopted in lieu of original; roll call recorded as 10 ayes, 0 nays. Reported to local uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 6 81 (committee substitute) — Committee substitute adopted; roll call recorded as 10 ayes, 0 nays. Reported to local uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 6 10 — Favorably reported; roll call recorded as 10 ayes, 0 nays. Reported to local uncontested calendar.
- SCR 8 — Favorably reported; roll call recorded as 10 ayes, 0 nays. Reported to local uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 3 78 — Favorably reported; roll call recorded as 10 ayes, 0 nays. Recommended for local and uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 12 52 (committee substitute) — Committee substitute adopted; roll call recorded as 9 ayes, 1 nay. Favorably reported.
Context and next steps: Most of the bills recorded above were sent to the full Senate with recommendations or to local/uncontested calendars as noted; several were committee-substitute actions (the committee adopted substitutes in place of original filings). Items taken up later in the hearing were left pending for further consideration or testimony.
Ending: The committee proceeded from the early roll-call business to take testimony on legislation across several subject areas, including franchise-fee clarification for streaming services, consumer protections for residential solar, capital markets and stock‑exchange incentives, restaurant and local permitting reform, and other bills recorded in the transcript.
