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House adopts Rules Committee report; multiple bills placed on third‑reading calendar or circled
Summary
The House adopted the Rules Committee report under suspension of rules, placing numerous bills and resolutions on the third‑reading calendar, while some items were circled, divided, or removed after floor division votes.
On the floor the Rules Committee report (presented by Representative Marta Dilley) listed a broad set of bills and resolutions recommended for second reading and placement on the third‑reading calendar under suspension of the rules. Items included tax revisions, utility amendments, renewable energy substitute bills, resolutions on national matters, and multiple other measures.
Representative Steiler and others proposed a substitute motion to exclude three items (HR7, first substitute HB2 51, and first substitute HB3 35) from the list. Members debated the substitute motion, requested division votes, and the chair called votes on whether individual items should appear on the calendar. Some bills were successfully removed from the list by floor vote; others remained and the full Rules Committee report was adopted.
The list read into the record included (but was not limited to) House Bill 2 57 (Public Education Legislative Task Force), HB2 69 (conditions for release after notice regarding arrest for domestic violence), HB2 76 (tax revisions), and a suite of energy, transportation and corrections‑related bills. The floor later read the committee's preferred arrangement of bills to the third‑reading calendar.
