House administrative rules committee unanimously approves multiple sunset extensions

The House Administrative Rules Committee on (date not specified) unanimously adopted amendments and passed several sunset-extension bills affecting boards and commissions.

Chair Representative Kendricks moved to amend a sunset bill to extend the board's statutory sunset to July 2026; the amendment was adopted and the measure was later declared passed. A later vote on the bill as amended was recorded as 11 yeas, 0 nays. Representative Kendricks said, "So I moved to amend that bill to be to extend the board to a sunset of July 2026." The clerk recorded the initial amendment vote as 10 yeas and 0 nays and the subsequent final passage as 11 yeas and 0 nays.

The committee also considered and passed House Bill 1034 as amended to extend the Archives and Record Commission's sunset by three years to 2028. Representative Kendricks offered the amendment to extend the Archives and Record Commission to 2028 and the committee adopted the change; the bill was declared passed with unanimous recorded support.

The panel then moved on to House Bill 1035 concerning the Capital Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission. Representative Kendricks offered an amendment and the committee recorded an 11-0 vote in favor; the bill was declared passed.

Votes at a glance: - Amendment to extend board sunset to July 2026: amendment moved by Representative Kendricks; recorded vote on amendment 10 yeas, 0 nays; final vote on the bill as amended 11 yeas, 0 nays. - House Bill 1034 (Archives and Record Commission): amendment by Representative Kendricks to extend sunset to 2028; final recorded outcome: unanimous (11 yeas, 0 nays). - House Bill 1035 (Capital Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission): amendment offered and bill passed, recorded 11 yeas, 0 nays.

Committee members recorded in roll-call excerpts included Waldron, West and Jenkins among those voting yea during roll calls; the clerk announced the tallies and declared the measures passed. The committee did not record any nays or abstentions on these items during the meeting transcript. There were no other formal dissenting motions or recorded objections on these sunset-extension items during the session.

The committee returned the passed measures to the chair for further processing; the clerk repeatedly declared that the bills "have passed" as the final step in each recorded vote. The transcript does not specify exact bill text beyond the described sunset extensions or provide subsequent calendar or effective dates beyond the extended sunset years noted above.