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Votes at a glance: Senate actions on conference committee reports (late-session roll calls)
Summary
Summary of conference committee reports voted on by the Senate during the late session, with roll-call results and brief descriptions of each measure.
The Senate completed floor action on a series of conference committee reports late in the session. Below is a concise list of each CCR the chamber voted on, the outcome and a short note about the subject matter.
- Senate Bill 80 (CCR): Technical corrections/code revision. Vote: 50 ayes, 0 noes. The chamber adopted the conference report for technical code corrections; sponsor presentation noted the measure handled end-of-session technical changes.
- House Bill 1014 (CCR #1): Public-safety and criminal-code revisions (resisting law enforcement updates, bail hearing rules, sentencing aggravators, injunctive remedy for certain “obscene performances”). Vote: 42 ayes, 8 noes. The Senate adopted the report after floor debate.
- House Bill 1142 (CCR #1): Local government and compact-related provisions (state compact fund, investment-pool language and other adjustments). Vote: 47 ayes, 3 noes. Sponsor described changes to appropriation language and compact continuations.
- House Bill 1427 (CCR #1): Department of Local Government Finance technical and policy changes (local taxing authority, veteran exemptions, CCRC exemption language). Vote: 37 ayes, 13 noes. The bill contains trailer and clean-up language tied to other bills.
- House Bill 1515 (CCR #1): Education package (pilot programs, scholarship fund establishment, Indianapolis Local Education Alliance, merit/admissions and grading language for certain health-education programs). Vote: 28 ayes, 22 noes. The CCR bundled several education policy items and provoked debate on late-added provisions.
- House Bill 1001 (CCR #1): Biennial state budget. Vote: 39 ayes, 11 noes. The conference committee report was approved after extended debate about Medicaid funding, new tobacco taxes earmarked to Medicaid, expansion of vouchers in year two and reductions to some public-health and programmatic funding.
Each of the above items was transmitted per the clerk’s instructions to the House or otherwise recorded by the Secretary following the roll-call results.
