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Business & Commerce Committee advances a slate of Senate bills in unanimous or near-unanimous roll calls
Summary
The Senate Business & Commerce Committee voted to report more than a half-dozen bills to the full Senate, primarily sending measures to the local and uncontested calendar. Most roll calls were unanimous; one bill recorded a 9–1 vote.
The Senate Business & Commerce Committee met in quorum and completed a series of roll-call votes on multiple bills, advancing them to the full Senate or the local and uncontested calendar.
Committee members voted to report the following bills favorably to the full Senate and, in most cases, recommended placement on the local and uncontested calendar. The meeting transcript records roll-call tallies for each measure as noted below.
Votes at a glance
- Senate Bill 72 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 9 ayes, 0 nays. Reported for the local and uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 627 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 9 ayes, 0 nays. Reported for the local and uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 703 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 9 ayes, 0 nays. Reported for the local and uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 764 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 9 ayes, 0 nays. Reported for the local and uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 21 (committee substitute adopted) — Committee substitute adopted; substitute favorably reported to the full Senate; 9 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 842 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 10 ayes, 0 nays. Recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 372 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 10 ayes, 0 nays. Recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. - Committee substitute to Senate Bill 262 — Committee substitute adopted and favorably reported; 10 ayes, 0 nays. Recommended for the local uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 370 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 10 ayes, 0 nays. Reported to the local and contested calendar. - Senate Bill 140 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; 10 ayes, 0 nays. Recommended for the local uncontested calendar. - Senate Bill 495 — Favorably reported to the full Senate; recorded in the transcript as 9 ayes and 1 nay (committee roll calls show one recorded nay). Reported to the full Senate.
What the committee did and did not do
The roll calls shown above complete committee-level action for these measures and, in most cases, place them on the local and uncontested calendar for consideration by the full Senate. The transcript records the committee’s roll-call votes and the individual “aye” responses from senators during each call. For the single vote that recorded a dissent (Senate Bill 495), the transcript does not name who cast the lone “nay.”
No floor votes or final passage by the full Senate occurred during this hearing; committee action was limited to reporting the bills out of committee.
Speakers
Roll-call responses and motions were recorded from the committee members present (members named in the transcript during roll calls include senators identified as Blanco, Campbell, Creighton, Johnson, Kolkhorst, Menendez, Middleton, Nichols, Zaffirini, King, Shortner and Schwartner). The clerk recorded the roll calls and announced the tallies for each bill.
