The Transportation, Energy and Utilities Committee approved a series of bills at its Jan. 7 meeting, voting unanimously on multiple items including a measure involving JEA that the committee took up early to accommodate utility staff and guests.

The approvals were largely procedural or second-read items that committee members said had already been vetted in other committees. Committee members recorded 6 yeas and 0 nays on each roll-call shown in the transcript for the items acted on at the meeting.

Committee leadership moved item 8, described in the record as the JEA bill, to the start of the agenda so JEA representatives could leave after the meeting; the measure passed on a recorded vote of 6-0. Several other bills were amended on the floor before being approved, and at least one closure/abandonment item had a brief public hearing.

Votes at a glance (as recorded in the meeting transcript): 20240948 (JEA bill) — approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240927 — amendment approved, bill as amended approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240928 — amendment approved, bill as amended approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240942 — public hearing held (one public commenter), amendment approved, bill approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240943 — approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240945 — amendment approved, bill approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240947 — public hearing opened and closed with no speakers, bill approved, recorded vote 6–0; 20240951 — amendment approved, bill approved, recorded vote 6–0. Items labeled as second read (983, 984, 985, 994) were noted as second-read items and not acted on during this meeting. Items 3 and 9 were deferred.

Committee members repeatedly noted that many items moved quickly because they had already been considered by other committees; the chair said that overlapping committee memberships meant many members had already voted on the measures prior to this meeting.

No detailed titles or full text for the bills were read into the record in the segments captured in the transcript; where the transcript did not provide a bill title or sponsoring language, the committee record lists the bill number only.

Ending: The committee adjourned after a short period of member updates and a reminder about outreach on other items.