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Committee approves consent calendar and advances multiple bills to the floor
Summary
The Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee added several bills to a consent calendar and voted to advance them, including items designated in the meeting transcript as agenda items 2, 3, 5, 9–14, 16 and 19.
The Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee assembled and approved a consent calendar and reported multiple bills to the floor by voice or roll-call action.
Items placed on the consent calendar during the meeting included: item 2 (Substitute for Senate Bill 884), item 3 (Senate Bill 1115), item 5 (Senate Bill 1393), item 9 (House Bill 5269), item 10 (House Bill 6439), item 11 (House Bill 6835), item 12 (House Bill 6979), item 13 (House Bill 6876), item 14 (House Bill 6922), item 16 (House Bill 7006) and item 19 (House Bill 7186). The administrator read the consent calendar aloud and the committee voted to approve the consent calendar as presented; the administrator recorded the roll call and confirmed the consent calendar items were reported to the floor.
Why it matters: Consent calendars expedite routine or noncontroversial measures; members placed multiple items on consent, sometimes after brief questions or assurances from sponsors that there were no objections. Several bills placed on consent had little or no substantive debate recorded in the fiscal committee because they were referred from other committees and were fiscal in nature.
What’s next: Each consent calendar item will proceed to the floor for further consideration according to legislative calendar rules. For items placed on consent, omitted fiscal details or bill language will be available in the official bill files and fiscal notes posted by committee staff.
