House Taxation Committee advances five bills unanimously in executive action

The House Taxation Committee reconvened after recess for executive action and moved five bills out of committee by voice votes and recorded totals.

Representative Thain moved House Bill 17 and the committee passed the motion; the clerk recorded a vote total of 20-0 in favor. The record notes proxy aye votes for Representatives Fitzpatrick and Loehr and that a proxy for one member (Representative Zolnikov) was not received and therefore did not count.

The committee then voted to pass House Bill 22 by voice vote. The clerk recorded the vote as 20-0 in favor; proxy aye votes for Fitzpatrick and Veil were recorded. The committee passed House Bill 16 by voice vote; the clerk recorded 20-0 in favor. The committee adopted amendment HB0018.001.001 to House Bill 18 (deleting dated language referencing January 1, 2005) and then passed House Bill 18 as amended by voice vote; the official tally was recorded as 20-0 in favor. The transcript shows each passage noted with the clerk announcing "20 representatives have voted aye, 0 voted no." The record contains the chairs' guidance that committee vote totals should be reported on the House floor.

No roll-call vote with individual member roll was printed in the transcript; the committee used voice votes and the clerk announced totals and recorded proxies where provided. Each bill is recorded in the hearing record as having passed the committee ("passes" or "passes out of committee") with the indicated tally.