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Votes at a glance: dozens of resolutions and bills adopted by the Senate during the May session
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Summary
The Senate adopted a large consent calendar and passed numerous individual bills and resolutions on the floor. This roundup lists items taken up and their outcomes as recorded on the floor roll calls.
The California State Senate completed a broad series of floor actions, adopting a long consent calendar and passing several bills on individual roll calls during the session. Below is a compact listing of the measures recorded on the transcript and their stated outcomes.
Key outcomes (selected): - SR 46 (Affordable Housing Month): adopted (Ayes 32, No 0). - SR 44 (Adopt a Pet Day, June 7): adopted (Ayes 38, No 0).
Special-consent calendar: the Senate read and adopted a multi-item special consent package by roll call. The clerk read the following items onto the special-consent calendar and the Senate applied a single roll call to the whole package (consent roll call: Ayes 37, No 0). The items listed on the special consent read on the floor included: Senate Resolution 43; and Senate Bills (as read) SB 18, SB 31, SB 305, SB 504, SB 505, SB 506, SB 607, SB 70, SB 704, SB 706, SB 708, SB 807, SB 2306, SB 2406, SB 250, SB 2705, SB 2708, SB 2804, SB 290, SB 2903, SB 2906, SB 302, SB 304, SB 317, SB 3209, SB 3308, SB 3405, SB 3502, SB 3503, SB 3505, SB 3509, SB 3604, SB 3703, SB 3901, SB 408, SB 4208, SB 4404, SB 4407, SB 4502, SB 4601, SB 503, SB 514, SB 520, SB 5503, SB 5603, SB 5608, SB 5901, SB 5907, SB 5909, SB 603, SB 6408, SB 6609, SB 6806, SB 6905, SB 717, SB 7203, SB 7204, SB 7309, SB 7404, SB 7405, SB 7604, SB 7704, SB 7801, SB 7805, SB 8202, SB 8505, SB 8602. (Consent roll call: Ayes 37, No 0.)
Individual floor items with recorded roll calls: (roll-call tallies shown where the clerk announced them on the record) - SB 731 (public safety item read on file item 14): passage recorded by roll call (measure passed; roll called and later announced as passed). - SB 333 (file item 16, district bill for San Luis Obispo revenue vote): recorded (Senate vote recorded; measure passed). - SB 280 (file item 19, Political Reform Act change to ban campaign contributions in legislative district offices): passed (2/3 required; roll call recorded affirmative votes). - SB 385 (peace officer education deadline removal): passed with urgency (2/3) on roll call. - SB 549 (NIFTI 2 local-government flexibility): passed on roll call. - SB 593 (electricity consumer protections): passed on roll call after floor debate. - SB 847 (workers' compensation reimbursement for uninsured employers): passed on roll call. - SB 786 (housing element litigation clarity): passed on roll call. - SB 398 (election law willful payments statute closure): passed on roll call. - SB 515 (standardized demographic data for local governments): passed on roll call. - SB 28 (treatment courts/Prop 36 implementation; urgency; 2/3 required): passed on roll call. - SB 279 (agricultural composting flexibility): passed on roll call. - SB 328 (hazardous waste fee cap for infill housing): passed on roll call. - SB 404 (regulatory framework for metal shredding facilities): passed on roll call. - SB 493 (fairgrounds district manager compensation): passed on roll call. - SB 530 (Medi-Cal access standards): passed on roll call. - SB 615 (end-of-life EV battery policy): passed on roll call. - SB 647 (Home Energy Savings Expansion Act; low-income clean energy coordination): passed on roll call. - SB 653 (definition of environmentally sensitive vegetation management): passed on roll call. - SB 809 (construction trucker classification/amnesty mechanism): passed on roll call.
Notes on tallies and procedure: the transcript records the clerk reading a long special-consent list and the Senate applying a single roll call to that consent calendar (Ayes 37, No 0). Other bills were called for individual roll call votes during the day; the transcript captures multiple roll calls and several urgency/2/3 items where required. Some items were removed from consent earlier in the day and taken up individually; those appear above under "Individual floor items." Where the clerk announced a final tally on the record, that figure is reported above; where the clerk did not announce a global tally for every individual bill, the article marks the outcome as "passed" and lists the item identifier; if additional tallies are needed, reporters should consult the official Senate journal or the clerk's published roll-call record for exact vote-by-name details.
Why it matters: dozens of measures that affect local government operations, energy programs, hazardous-waste fees, housing law and other subject areas moved through the Senate floor in a single session. Several urgency items and district-specific measures were resolved by roll call.
Where to look for the official record: the Senate journal and the clerks roll-call log provide vote-by-name tallies and final enrolled versions of bills; reporters should cite the official record for exact vote counts and final bill text.
