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Rules and standing committees advance dozens of bills to second/third reading
Summary
Rules and standing committees recommended dozens of bills for second reading or placement on the third‑reading calendar, including measures on child support, transit, juvenile corrections, education funding and property tax. The House adopted the committee reports by voice votes.
On Jan. 21 the House received and adopted multiple committee reports that moved dozens of bills forward in the legislative process.
Mr. Stacey, the Rules Committee representative, recommended under suspension of the rules that a set of named bills (including HB166, HB167, HB169, HB127 and HB182) be considered read for the second time and placed on the third‑reading calendar. The House adopted the Rules Committee recommendation by voice vote. Committee chairs from Business, Labor & Economic Development and Education also reported favorable recommendations on many bills, including HB213, HB62, HB211, HB171, HB172, HB194 and HB18; each committee report was adopted by the House without recorded opposition on the floor.
The Speaker then announced standing committee assignments for a long list of bills, assigning measures to committees including Business, Labor & Economic Development; Health & Human Services; Judiciary; Law Enforcement & Criminal Justice; Natural Resources; Public Utilities & Technology; Revenue & Taxation; and Transportation. New bills were introduced and referred to Rules for first reading; examples read into the record included HB81 (appropriation for Cochran supplies), HB82 (public transit district office), HB83 (gun education for elementary school) and HB84 (employee transportation sales tax exemption).
Committee chairs described favorable committee recommendations and the House moved to adopt those reports by voice vote, advancing the listed bills to the next stage in the process. No roll‑call opposition to the committee reports was recorded on the floor transcript.
