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Votes at a glance: Senate Transportation Committee (selected bills reported to full Senate)
Summary
Roll calls and committee recommendations from the Senate Transportation Committee hearing; lists bills the committee adopted substitutes for or reported favorably, with recorded tallies where the transcript provides them.
The Senate Transportation Committee took several final committee actions during the hearing session. The following is a concise list of committee actions and roll‑call tallies as recorded in the hearing transcript. Where the roll call was read into the record the clerk’s tally is included; where the transcript records "5 ayes, no nays" that tally is reported as read.
- SB 39 (committee substitute adopted): Committee substitute adopted; committee reported the committee substitute favorably to the full Senate. Roll call read: 6 ayes, 3 nays (Nichols Aye; West No; Bettencourt Aye; Hagenboo Aye; Hinojosa Aye; Johnson No; King Aye; Miles Aye; Perry Aye).
- SB 2722 (committee substitute adopted, reported favorably): The clerk announced: "There being 6 ayes, 3 nays." (Roll‑call names read in transcript.)
- SB 682 (memorial highway naming): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." (Committee recommended placement on local uncontested calendar.)
- SB 1013 (Lisa Torrey Smith Act expansion): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." (Committee recommended placement on local uncontested calendar.)
- SB 1369 (memorial highway naming): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." (Committee recommended placement on local uncontested calendar.)
- SB 1422 (memorial bridge naming): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." (Committee recommended placement on local uncontested calendar.)
- SB 2366 (short‑line rail grant program): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." The committee noted proponents should prepare floor amendment language for funding flow to rail districts rather than private carriers.
- SB 2705 (registration exemptions codification): Reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays."
- SB 2001 (disabled peace‑officer specialty license plate): Committee substitute adopted and reported favorably; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays."
- SB 2080 (ports modernization committee substitute): Committee adopted the committee substitute and reported it favorably to the full Senate; clerk recorded "5 ayes, no nays." Committee members directed further negotiation on scope and tax/exemption language between the sponsor and affected cities.
- SB 2705 and remaining pending matters: Several bills were reported with "5 ayes, no nays" and moved to the local uncontested calendar as noted in the transcript. The committee kept voting open for about an hour before recess and recessed after the roll calls.
These committee reports send the listed bills to the full Senate for further floor consideration. The transcript records that multiple bills were left pending for floor amendments, and sponsors indicated they would work with stakeholders on clarifying language for floor consideration.
