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Votes at a glance: key actions by Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee (April 1, 2025)
Summary
Summary of motions and committee recommendations taken during the April 1 Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee meeting, including outcomes and clerk tallies where recorded.
The committee voted on multiple bills and resolutions during the April 1 hearing. This roundup lists each item that had a recorded committee action, the result and key details recorded in the transcript.
• Senate Bill 836 (Chairman Watson) — Committee recommended passage to the calendar committee as amended. Clerk recorded the committee tally as 7 ayes, 4 noes. The bill would allow LEAs and charter schools to require documentation of citizenship or lawful status at enrollment, institute a 21‑day appeals process to the State Department of Education, and permit local tuition when documentation is not provided.
• Senate Joint Resolution 2 (Senator Pote) — A resolution stating support for Israel. Committee recommended passage to the calendar committee; clerk recorded 9 ayes.
• Senate Bill 1413 (Senator Briggs) — As amended by the Finance Committee (finance amendment reallocating tax/enforcement to ABC), the committee recommended passage to the calendar committee; clerk recorded the committee recommendation and a clerk tally of 8 ayes and recorded no votes against by name in the transcript. The bill transfers retail and wholesale enforcement for certain hemp‑derived cannabinoid products to the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, creates license categories and fees, and adds wholesale and sales taxes as described to support enforcement and other state needs.
• Senate Bill 428 (Senator Reeves) — The committee adopted Finance Committee amendment number 1 and recommended the bill for passage to the calendar committee; clerk recorded 9 ayes.
• Senate Bill 889 (Senator Reeves) — The committee recommended passage to the calendar committee; clerk recorded 9 ayes. The bill raises the maximum mineral severance tax on a phased schedule from 15¢ (current) to 20¢ and then 30¢ by 2035, with local government approval required to levy the tax.
• Senate Bill 817 (Senator Lowe) — A permissive bill to allow participating schools to house rescue inhalers; the committee recommended passage to the calendar committee with a recorded vote of 10 ayes.
• Senate Joint Resolution 48 (Senator Massey / TECB) — The committee recommended ratifying the TECB’s rate increase for the uniform 911 surcharge from $1.50 to $1.86; clerk recorded 6 ayes and 4 noes.
• Senate Bill 322 (Senator Massey) — The committee recommended passage of the amendment to extend paid leave eligibility for state employees so the existing six‑week paid parental leave policy can be used to care for family members with serious health conditions; clerk recorded 8 ayes and 1 no.
The committee adopted several finance amendments and technical amendments across these items; where the clerk read a roll call, this summary reports the committee outcome as recorded on the transcript.
