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Votes at a glance: Housing Committee actions and roll calls
Summary
Summary of bills the Housing Committee voted on during the session, with outcomes and brief descriptions; roll-call results are published in the committee record.
The Housing Committee completed roll-call votes on multiple bills and adopted several measures or amendments during the session. Below are the bills recorded in committee action and their outcomes. This is a procedural summary; committee minutes include the full roll-call transcript.
- House Bill 6949 (as amended by LCO 5975): An act concerning a landlord’s ability to enter a dwelling unit — Substitute adopted; bill moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded).
- House Bill 6950: An act concerning the income threshold for tenants renting a dwelling unit in a set‑aside development — Bill moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded).
- Senate Bill 1305: Motion carried to JF to the floor (roll call recorded).
- House Bill 7113 (as amended by voice amendment): Establishes light-touch density option for municipalities; oral amendment changing 'shall' to 'may' adopted by voice; bill moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded).
- House Bill 7032: Establishing a program to assist municipalities in developing preapproved building plans — Bill moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded).
- Senate Bill 1264 (LCO 5716): Requires notification of rights to parties before a fair rent commission — Amended and moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded); committee members praised the measure as a straightforward protection.
- Additional bills recorded with roll-call votes that were moved JF to the floor (roll call recorded): HB 7033 (homelessness life-sustaining activities), HB 7030 (open choice voucher pilot expansion), HB 7112 (housing and homelessness and rental assistance program), HB 7034 (prohibiting donation-of-land conditions), HB 692 (limiting rent increases on property transfer), HB 6939 (right to counsel funding authorization), HB 1263 (tax credits for commercial conversion), among others listed in the committee roll call.
Committee clerks recorded the roll calls and votes in real time; the official committee minutes include the full name-by-name vote records and are the authoritative record for each tally.
Members were also informed the committee will not take action on agenda items 13, 17, 22 and 34 at this meeting. The committee recessed with votes held open for 30 minutes to permit some members to submit missed votes by phone, and clerks confirmed several late or missed votes while the meeting was recessed.
