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Senate Finance and Claims: votes at a glance — executive action on tax and budget bills
Summary
The committee took executive action on multiple bills heard in the morning session. Several measures passed (SB 322 as amended, SB 327, SB 409, SB 424, SB 434, SB 534, concurrence on HB 757); SB 203 was tabled after a close roll-call vote.
After a morning of hearings, Senate Finance and Claims recessed and reconvened for executive action. The committee recorded the following outcomes in the official roll calls and motions recorded on the floor:
- HB 757 (Arts grant prioritization): Committee moved to concur; motion passed and the bill was returned with a committee recommendation. - SB 203 (Income-tax bracket change): Motion to do pass failed on recorded roll call (10 yes, 12 no); the chair announced the bill would be tabled. - SB 322 (Business equipment tax exemption): Committee adopted a conceptual amendment changing the exemption from $3,000,000 to $1,500,000 and then passed the bill as amended; recorded votes supported adoption of the amendment and passage. - SB 327 (Motor-vehicle registration fee reduction): Committee passed the bill as amended (roll call recorded 12 yes, 10 no); sponsor stated an expected revised fiscal note will show roughly $3 million to hold local entitlements whole. - SB 409 (targeted bed-tax allocations for trafficking and domestic-violence victims): Committee passed the bill in executive action (roll call recorded 19 yes, 3 no on recorded tally for the bill). - SB 424 (disabled veterans property tax assistance expansion): Committee passed the bill in executive action. - SB 434 (property tax rebate / backstop): Committee passed the bill in executive action. - SB 534 (property tax exemption for wireless infrastructure): Committee passed the bill in executive action.
Where specific roll-call tallies were recorded on the transcript, they are noted above. The committee recorded proxies in several roll calls; where individual proxies were recorded, they were reflected in the official tally sheets rather than by speaker name in the hearing transcript.
