Committee reports: roll‑call outcomes on dozens of bills; subcommittees advance multiple health, labor and infrastructure measures

At a meeting of the House Committee on Labor and Commerce, subcommittee chairs presented reports and the full committee recorded outcomes on a broad set of bills spanning financial services, insurance mandates, worker protections, utility and energy matters, and housing‑related labor rules. Committees voted to report a large number of bills — many to appropriations — and several were approved by recorded roll calls.

Votes at a glance (bill → committee action and recorded roll results as announced in the meeting)

- HB 1942 (money transmitters; licensure/supervision) — reported to committee; recorded vote: 20‑1 (report with recommendation). - HB 2100 (Medicare supplement open enrollment rules; substitute adopted) — reported with substitute; recorded tally as announced in the hearing record (tally text in transcript unclear; recorded as "measure passes" in committee record). (vote tally: not specified in transcript record for roll call) - HB 2371 (coverage for contraceptive drugs/devices; amendment; referral to appropriations) — reported with amendment; recorded vote: 14‑7. - HB 2208 (at‑home blood pressure monitors substitute; referral to appropriations) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 12‑9 (reported and referred to appropriations). - HB 2250 (step therapy study; substitute; Bureau of Insurance data call) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 18‑3. - HB 2392 (pharmacy benefit managers; hospitals removed from exemption) — reported; recorded vote: 21‑0. - HB 2481 (workers’ compensation: repetitive stress/occupational disease) — reported and referred to appropriations; recorded vote: 13‑8. - HB 2525 (patient out‑of‑pocket real‑time costs; work group changes) — reported; recorded vote: 20‑1. - HB 2671 (septic system inspections; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 18‑3. - HB 2738 (mental health/substance use disorder coverage; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 14‑7. - HB 2769 (insurance protections re: PrEP; subcommittee report) — reported; committee recorded final tally announced as 12‑9 (transcript includes a correction from an earlier tally). - HB 2089 (collective bargaining for individual home care providers; subcommittee) — reported with amendment; recorded vote: 12‑9 (referred to appropriations). - HB 2495 (firefighters/EMS collective bargaining; creation of arbitration board) — reported; recorded vote: 12‑9. - HB 2559 (local incumbent employer protections; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 12‑9. - HB 2743 (prevailing wage for underground infrastructure work; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 12‑9. - HB 2764 (collective bargaining repeal and public employee relations board) — reported; recorded vote: 12‑9. - HB 2509 (Clean Energy Innovation Board continuation/substitute) — reported with substitute and referred to appropriations; recorded vote: 11‑9. - HB 2537 (long duration storage targets; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 16‑5. - HB 2545 (pipeline odorization; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded outcome recorded as failing in committee 7‑14 (measure did not pass). - HB 2621 / HB 2621‑related (securitization/utility financing for Appalachian Power) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 19‑2. - HB 2635 (brownfield renewable grant amounts increase) — reported; recorded vote: 20‑1 (later reconsideration recorded 21‑0 on that motion). - HB 2744 (low‑income energy efficiency target; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 15‑6. - HB 2515 (consumer price disclosure substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 12‑9. - HB 2644 (electric cooperative subsidiaries, large‑demand customers) — reported; recorded vote: 21‑0. - HB 2755 (underground transmission pilot; substitute) — reported with substitute; recorded vote: 12‑9.

How to read this list: committee outcomes above are drawn from the committee’s oral record during the meeting. Several subcommittees recommended reporting bills with substitutes or amendments; the full committee then moved, seconded and recorded roll calls as shown. Where transcript wording was ambiguous about a precise numeric tally (some voice votes or garbled readouts), the entry is flagged as "not specified" or described using the committee's announced text.

What the committee did not do: For bills that were reported to appropriations, the committee did not adopt final policy in this session; those bills will proceed to the next stage of the legislative process (appropriations/floor) as indicated in committee reports.

Context: The meeting included lengthy subcommittee reports and multiple substitute motions. The committee also spent time on infrastructure and energy policy in Subcommittee 3 (clean energy innovation board, energy storage targets, water/wastewater infrastructure rider). Several interest groups and agency representatives provided testimony during subcommittee hearings and in full committee on specific items.

Meeting close: The chair thanked subcommittee chairs for processing a heavy docket and adjourned the session until further business arrives from the Senate or follow‑up in the House.