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Appropriations committee voting session: quick rundown of bills approved and procedural outcomes
Summary
The committee voted on multiple bills during the session. This roundup lists sponsors, short descriptions and committee outcomes for each bill recorded during the session.
The Appropriations Committee completed a voting session that advanced several bills and adopted committee amendments on multiple items. Below is a concise, factual listing of bills called during the session, the sponsor listed on the record and the committee outcome. Where the transcript did not record a numeric roll-call tally, the article notes that the vote tally was not specified on the public record.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 504 (Blueprint amendments) — Presenter: Michelle Lambert, Speaker's Office. Committee adopted amendments and advanced the bill as amended. Outcome: approved by committee. (See separate article for full coverage of the amendments.)
- House Bill 609 (Legislative scholarships; appraisal training) — Sponsor (on record): Delegate Smith. Motion to move the bill; outcome: approved by committee. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 678 (Maryland Deaf Culture Digital Library; mandated appropriation) — Sponsor: Delegate Spiegel. Motion to move; outcome: approved by committee. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 704 (Maryland Graduate Professional Scholarship Program; include medical school recipients) — Sponsor: Delegate Harris. No amendments; motion to move and seconded; outcome: approved by committee. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 1010 (African American Heritage Preservation Grant Fund; allow grants and donations) — Sponsor: Delegate (on record). Motion to move; outcome: approved by committee. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 1080 (purpose description provided on the record) — Sponsor: Delegate Harris. Motion to move; outcome: approved by committee. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 1344 (state facility assessments for potential child-care leasing) — Sponsor: Delegate Jones. Committee adopted an amendment to have DGS conduct assessments on specified state facilities, reducing the fiscal note to zero; outcome: amendment approved and bill advanced. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
- House Bill 1424 (Catastrophic Event Account / federal shutdown assistance) — Sponsor: Delegate Lewis. Committee adopted amendments, including expanded authority for the Attorney General and emergency bill status; outcome: amendments approved and bill advanced. Vote tally: not specified on the record.
Other procedural notes
- One bill listed by the sponsor was withdrawn as unfavourable and removed from the call during the session (transcript: "last bill on the list is withdrawn by the sponsor. Unfavorable. Withdrawn.")
- Several bills passed by roll call; the transcript records many individual delegate roll-call responses ("is a yay" / "is a no") for each bill but does not provide a numeric aggregated tally in the printed excerpt. For those items this roundup records the outcome and notes the transcript did not specify a numeric tally.
Methods and sources: This roundup is based on the committee's public voting session transcript. Sponsor names and short descriptions are drawn from the record statements at the time each bill was presented.
