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Executive-action roundup: committee moves multiple bills including HB245, SB50, HB13, HB3, SB91 and SB19
Summary
After hearings, the Senate Finance and Claims Committee completed executive action on multiple bills: concurred on HB245, gave SB50 a do-pass, concurred on the pay plan (HB13) and supplemental (HB3) as amended, advanced SB91 with amendments, and passed SB19; recorded tallies are included below.
The Senate Finance and Claims Committee completed executive action on several measures after hearings and deliberations. The committee recorded final outcomes and vote tallies for each item listed below.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 245 (HELP Act workforce provision): Motion to concur recorded as "concurred". Roll-call result in the committee: 13 yes, 9 no. Outcome: concurred; bill to third reading unamended.
- Senate Bill 50 (require warrants for CPS removals): Committee moved do pass; transcript records the bill as having "passed unanimously." Outcome: do pass; advanced by committee (sent back to the originating chamber for further action, transcript notes return to second because of amendment during deliberations).
- House Bill 13 (pay plan): Committee considered an amendment to remove a legislative pay increase; the amendment failed (3 yes, 19 no on the amendment). The underlying bill (as introduced) was then concurred in on a roll-call recorded as 14 yes, 8 no. Outcome: concurred and will be carried to the floor.
- House Bill 3 (supplemental): Committee adopted multiple amendments (legal-services addition, reclassification of federal-to-general funds, Department of Corrections bed funding) and then concurred in the bill as amended with one recorded dissent. Outcome: concurred as amended; reported out with one dissenting vote.
- Senate Bill 91 (citizenship marker on driver IDs): Committee adopted a conceptual amendment and then passed the bill in executive action; transcript recorded a roll call of 13 yes, 9 no after amendment. Outcome: passed out of committee as amended (to second reading because of committee amendment).
- Senate Bill 19 (revised theft sentencing): Committee passed the bill out of Finance and Claims with a recorded roll call of 14 yes, 8 no. Outcome: passed to third reading unamended.
Context and next steps: Several of the bills had fiscal-note discussion during their hearings (for example, HB245 and SB50). Committee members frequently asked departmental staff to clarify fiscal-note time and overtime assumptions; where the committee amended bills in executive action (for example, HB3 and SB91), transcripts note those amendments and the bills were returned to the appropriate next step in the legislative calendar.
Ending: Committee adjourned and scheduled to reconvene the following day for additional bills.
