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House reads in dozens of bills on first day, assigns measures to committees
Summary
Clerks read in dozens of House bills and resolutions on first reading; the Rules Committee recommended multiple measures for second/third reading and the Speaker assigned introduced bills to standing committees for consideration.
On the House floor the clerk read into the record dozens of House bills and resolutions on first reading and referred them to committee. Items read included bills on foster care citizen review boards (HB4), professional license disclosure (HB5), a computers-for-public-schools pilot (HB7), property tax circuit breaker amendments (HB201), criminal-intent provisions (HB39), health-insurance parity (HB38) and many others across education, transportation, natural resources and public safety.
Madam Clerk and the Rules Committee presented a report recommending specific bills and resolutions be considered read for the second time and placed on the third-reading calendar. The House adopted the Rules Committee report by voice vote.
After the introduction, the Speaker assigned newly introduced measures to standing committees including Business, Labor and Economic Development; Education; Government Operations; Health and Human Services; Judiciary; Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment; Revenue and Taxation; Transportation; and Workforce Services.
The transcript does not record roll-call tallies for these referrals; actions were recorded as passed by voice vote and the bills were ``printed'' and downloaded to members’ computers for review. Many bill titles appear in the transcript in abbreviated or truncated form; full statutory text and fiscal notes are not included in the reading recorded on the floor.
