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Senate Judiciary executive actions: committee advances multiple bills, records several roll‑call outcomes
Summary
At the close of hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee took executive action on a slate of bills. Several passed out of committee; some amendments failed earlier in the session. Where roll‑call tallies were recorded, they are noted; where the hearing recorded only voice votes, tallies are not specified in the transcript.
The Senate Judiciary Committee moved a set of bills through executive action following hearings. Outcomes recorded in the committee transcript include roll‑call tallies for some measures and voice‑vote or committee‑record passage for others.
Votes at a glance (committee action recorded in transcript):
- SB 14 (audit of ODC): Do pass. Roll call: 6 yes, 3 no (Vice Chair Ricky: yes; Vice Chair Olsen: no by proxy; Sen. Emmerich: yes; Sen. Lammers: yes; Sen. Mansella: yes; Sen. Newman: no; Sen. Smith: no by proxy; Sen. Vinton: yes; Chair Usher: yes). Motion passed.
- SB 42 (judicial elections / partisan disclosure): After an amendment failed, the committee approved the bill in executive action. Roll call recorded: 6 yes, 3 no.
- SB 45 (judicial performance disclosures and voter information): Committee adopted multiple amendments and passed the bill as amended. Final committee vote recorded: 6 yes, 3 no.
- SB 84 (pre‑sentence investigations): Committee advanced the bill; committee record reports unanimous passage out of committee (committee reported unanimous approval during executive action).
- SB 132 (minor in possession; separate alcohol and marijuana coding): Committee advanced the bill; transcript records committee passage (voice/committee record), roll‑call not specified.
- SB 136 (assisted‑suicide related revisions): The committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill; recorded vote on an amendment and final passage were reported in the transcript (amendment recorded as 9 yes; final passage recorded as 7 yes, 2 no in roll call entries).
- SB 137 (jurors over age 75): Passed by voice vote in committee (recorded as passed in committee).
- SB 156 (evidentiary burdens in child welfare proceedings): Committee passed the bill by roll call: 7 yes, 2 no.
- SB 162 (Criminal Justice Oversight Council membership language): Committee advanced the bill (voice vote; proxies recorded in committee record).
Several bills had amendments considered; the transcript records amendment votes and whether amendments passed or failed. For some bills the committee used proxy votes and voice votes; the transcript lists recorded proxy votes in some roll calls.
Where the committee recorded roll‑call tallies, the tallies above are drawn from the committee record printed in the hearing transcript. For bills recorded as advanced by voice vote, the transcript does not always list individual member votes; the committee record shows the bills passed out of committee in those cases.
A number of bills remain pending across later floor stages or revision; committee staff or sponsors may file additional amendments before further floor action.
