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Votes at a glance: Education Committee actions during afternoon session
Summary
The committee considered amendments and committee recommendations on several bills following the House Bill 1540 hearing. Recorded outcomes included amendments adopted on multiple measures and committee-level recommendations (due pass / do not pass) that will determine whether proposals move to appropriations or fall from consideration.
The House Education Committee completed multiple votes after the House Bill 1540 hearing. The transcript records committee action on a series of bills; the committee adopted amendments on several measures and recorded committee recommendations (due pass or do not pass) as follows.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 1130 (HB 11-30): Adopted amendment (motion to adopt amendment made by Representative Schreiber Beck; second by Representative Conney). Amendment vote recorded as 12 yes, 1 no, 1 present (12–1–1). Committee then voted to recommend HB 11-30 as amended (due pass) and refer it to the appropriations committee; recorded vote was 8 yes, 5 no, 1 present (8–5–1).
- House Bill 1565 (HB 15-65): Committee adopted a technical amendment and later debated a committee recommendation. The transcript records the amendment adoption (voice roll call showing 14 yes) and later a committee do-not-pass motion that carried 11 yes, 3 no (11–3). The committee therefore recorded a do-not-pass recommendation for HB 15-65.
- House Bill 1618 (HB 16-18): The committee discussed a tribal-school infrastructure request and ultimately recorded a do-not-pass recommendation. Final roll-call shows do-not-pass carried (recorded as 14 yes), so HB 16-18 did not receive a committee due-pass recommendation.
- House Bill 1517 (HB 15-17) — teacher-preparation scholarship bill: The committee adopted further technical amendments but the full bill failed a committee due-pass motion (6 yes, 8 no). A subsequent do-not-pass motion carried; final committee recommendation: do not pass (10 yes, 6 no on the final do-not-pass tally recorded in the transcript).
- House Bill 1476 (HB 14-76) — statewide school-building assessment plan: The committee adopted an amendment and then voted to recommend the bill (due pass) and re-refer it to appropriations. Both amendment and committee recommendation were recorded unanimously (14–0).
What these committee decisions mean
- Bills the committee recommended as due pass and re-referred to appropriations (for example, HB 11-30 and HB 14-76 as amended) will next be considered by the legislature’s budget/appropriations process and may be placed on the floor calendar depending on committee actions there. - Bills receiving a do-not-pass committee recommendation (for example HB 15-65, HB 16-18, HB 15-17) are effectively blocked from immediate advancement by the House Education Committee; sponsors may seek to revive or amend those measures in future committee sessions or on the floor but the recorded committee votes mean those bills are not moving forward from this committee in their current forms.
Transcript evidence and procedure
The transcript records motions, seconds and roll-call tallies for each action. Where the transcript recorded the motion maker and the second, those names are included in the action notes; when motions were offered without an explicit mover in the recorded excerpt, the item lists the action taken and the roll-call result. Committee procedures used voice votes and recorded roll calls for final recommendations, and several measures were amended on the floor of committee before final votes.
Next procedural steps
Bills the committee recommended for due pass will appear before the appropriations committee for fiscal review and possible referral to the House floor. Proposals that received do-not-pass recommendations can be reintroduced or amended; sponsors and stakeholders generally asked for follow-up meetings to address fiscal, accountability or statutory concerns that were cited during testimony and committee questioning.
