Committee on Local Government adopts committee substitutes, reports multiple bills to full Senate

The Senate Committee on Local Government advanced multiple bills and one joint resolution to the full Senate on procedural votes, adopting committee substitutes for several measures and recording roll-call tallies for each action.

The moves send the committee’s recommended language and procedural recommendations — including committee substitutes — to the full Senate for further consideration. Most measures were reported with recommendations that the underlying bill "do not pass" while the committee substitute "do pass," a standard committee practice when the panel adopts amended text.

Senate Bill 467: The committee chair laid out Senate Bill 467 and noted a committee substitute had been prepared. Senator Middleton moved to adopt the committee substitute and then moved that the bill be reported to the Senate with the recommendation that the original bill "do not pass," and that the committee substitute "do pass." The clerk called the roll; the committee recorded seven ayes,…