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Rules Committee Places a Broad Set of Senate Bills on Third-Reading Calendar
Summary
The House Rules Committee recommended under suspension of rules that a large package of Senate bills be considered for placement at the top of the third-reading calendar, including bills on administrative rulemaking, charter schools, tax commission amendments, county oversight, and sales-and-use tax changes; the House adopted the committee report.
The House adopted a Rules Committee report on March 2 that recommended, under suspension of the rules, placing a broad set of Senate bills at the top of the third-reading calendar. Committee Chair Marta Dilley read a list that included Senate Bill 30 (Administrative Rulemaking Act amendments), Senate Bill 57 (charter school amendments), changes to the State Tax Commission, municipal improvement district amendments, county oversight for local human-service authorities, telephone/fax solicitation rules, condominium-law amendments, warrant provisions, information-technology amendments, vehicle-sale security-interest changes, revenue procedure amendments, parent-time revisions, motor-carrier fee changes, firearms revisions, and others.
Members moved to adopt the committee report; after a brief point of order about suspension rules, the House approved placing the listed Senate bills on the third-reading calendar. The Rules Committee later repeated a recommendation to place additional items, including second substitute Senate Bill 213 (sales-and-use tax amendments), at the top of the third-reading calendar. House leaders noted scheduling priorities for follow-up action after the session reconvened.
Next steps: bills listed by the Rules Committee will be positioned for third-reading consideration in the upcoming floor schedule.
