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Votes at a glance: Senate Finance executive session outcomes and recorded tallies
Summary
During its executive session the Senate Finance Committee recorded several formal outcomes on bills and amendments; the transcript records motions, roll-call tallies for select items, and committee decisions to table or carry votes forward for later action.
The Senate Finance Committee moved to executive session and considered multiple bills and amendments. The hearing transcript records several formal motions, roll-call outcomes, and procedural dispositions. The following items were recorded in the committee’s executive session as shown in the transcript:
- Senate Bill 114: Motion to recommend Ought to Pass (OTP) was moved by Senator Rosenwald and seconded by Senator Lang; the committee voice vote returned “Aye” and the chair announced “the ayes have it.” A recorded tally later in the transcript lists “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to nothing” (6–0) in favor of the motion as recorded by the clerk.
- An amendment (identified in the transcript as adding a non-lapsing sentence to a section) was adopted by voice vote and recorded with the committee announcing the ayes; the transcript shows the action passed.
- Senate Bill 115: A motion described in the transcript as “move to Washington” was made and seconded (move recorded by Senator Buerzo and seconded by Senator Lang). The transcript records the motion and further committee processing but does not record a numeric roll-call tally in the public excerpts.
- Multiple amendments and bills that followed were acted on in executive session with voice votes recorded; the transcript includes recorded voice outcomes (for example, “Aye,” “The ayes have it”) and several explicit voice tallies for amendments (for example, “6 to 0” and “5–1” tallies are recorded in the public transcript when the chair called for the vote). The transcript indicates some bills were tabled or withdrawn by sponsors for further work; in other cases sponsors agreed to take bills out of committee for additional amendment work.
The committee used the tabled motion and non-consent procedures for several items; in multiple cases sponsors were instructed to work with committee members to prepare amendments and return with technical fixes or funding clarifications. The transcript does not include a fully itemized roll-call for every bill listed in the executive session portion; where numeric tallies are recorded in the transcript, those tallies are reproduced here.
Because the transcript records both voice votes and some numeric tallies, the committee’s final floor or referral dispositions for many bills may be listed later in official minutes or the Senate clerk’s record; this summary reflects only the actions and tallies explicitly recorded in the transcript excerpt provided.
