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Votes at a glance: several bills passed on final passage during the House session
Summary
The House took recorded votes on multiple bills across education, public safety, local government and business development. This roundup lists each item stated on the floor with the outcome and the floor tally where provided.
The House recorded final-passage action on a number of bills during the session. Below are brief summaries and the roll-call outcomes as stated on the House floor.
House Bill 16‑37 — Office of School Safety: Sponsor Representative Bartels said the bill moves personnel from the Department of Education to the Department of Homeland Security, creates an Office of School Safety and expands school-safety duties. Roll call on final passage was recorded as 94 ayes, 0 nays; the bill was ordered passed and the clerk instructed to inform the Senate.
House Bill 16‑87 — Sex‑offender and community placement provisions: Representative Smalls and cosponsors described provisions to limit certain employment and add oversight where offenders move between communities; the bill passed by roll call with 94 ayes, 0 nays.
House Bill 16‑15 — Level‑3 tech park designation (defense industry): Representative Lindauer described a new level‑3 tech-park designation to extend incremental TIF capture for qualified military base enhancement areas. The House vote was recorded as 92 ayes, 0 nays; bill passed.
House Bill 16‑02 — Local foods / labeling and custom-exempt processing: Sponsor Representative Copp said the bill requires labeling for plant- or cell‑based meat products and clarifies custom-exempt processed-meat rules; final passage was recorded 93 ayes, 0 nays.
House Bill 16‑01 — Quantum corridor incentive: Representative Soliday proposed sales-tax exemptions and other incentives to create a quantum computing corridor linking universities and military contractors; the bill passed 76 ayes, 18 nays.
House Bill 15‑77 — Statewide mobile retail (food trucks) license: Representative King said the bill establishes a statewide mobile-retail food license and a work group to set fees; final passage was recorded 94 ayes, 2 nays.
House Bill 15‑39 — Bullying and student transfers: Representative Smith described reduced notification timelines and expanded transfer options for severe incidents; the bill passed 91 ayes, 0 nays.
House Bill 1,500 — Teacher-evaluation repeal / retooling of teacher incentives: Representative Banting said the bill repeals statewide prescription of teacher evaluation metrics and restructures incentive grants; final vote 66 ayes, 27 nays.
House Bill 10‑03 — Health‑care omnibus (see separate article): Final passage recorded 66 ayes, 31 nays.
House Bill 11‑19 — Qualified oral-fluid impairment testing and evidentiary procedures: Representative McNamara described standardized oral-fluid devices for impairment evidence and rules for lab testimony; final passage was recorded (vote recorded on floor as passed).
House Bill 11‑86 — Law-enforcement and public-safety measures: Representative Bartels said the bill clarifies training tiers, expands certain jurisdictional powers for SROs, and raises penalties in specified shooting scenarios; the bill passed 86 ayes, 8 nays.
House Bill 13‑76 — Naloxone in schools: Representative Boyer described allowing FDA‑approved opioid-overdose reversal medications to be maintained and used on school property and buses; final passage was recorded 91 ayes, 0 nays.
House Bill 13‑12 — Statewide public-notice website: Representative Meltzer presented a bill to create a searchable state-run public-notice website; the House passed the measure 57 ayes, 36 nays.
This list is not exhaustive of every bill considered on the calendar, but it records the floor summaries and recorded outcomes announced during this session. For the bills listed above, the clerk was instructed to inform the Senate of passage.
