The Senate Committee on Finance reported House Bill 3000 favorably to the full Senate on a 13-0 roll call, advancing a $90 million grant program intended to provide financial assistance to qualified ambulance service providers in certain rural counties.

Senator Perry, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure is effectively unchanged from the version the committee reviewed earlier this session and that “there is some comptroller conversations just for cleanup that may actually happen before it's gone off the floor.” He described the program as a $90,000,000 grant for rural ambulance providers. The committee record notes the appropriation is accounted for in Article 9 of Senate Bill 1.

The motion to report House Bill 3000 favorably was made by Senator Perry. The clerk called the roll; senators recorded voting “aye” included Alvarado, Bentoncourt, Campbell, Creighton, Flores, Paul, Kolkhorst, Nichols, Paxton, Harry, Shwartner, West, Zaffirini, Hinojosa and Huffman. The clerk announced “13 ayes, no nays,” and the chair stated the bill “will be reported favorably to the full Senate.”

No amendments or alternate motions were recorded in committee. Senator Perry and the chair both indicated the bill's language matches what the committee previously considered and that any remaining changes would be technical cleanup with the comptroller’s office. The committee took no additional formal direction beyond reporting the bill to the Senate.

House Bill 3000 now moves to the full Senate for further consideration under regular Senate procedures.