House floor adopts Rules Committee report; committee makes scheduling recommendations

The presiding officer called the House to consider the Rules Committee report and a member moved adoption of the report on the floor.

A member reading the report listed a series of house bills and resolutions recommended by the Rules Committee, including bills on education reporting (HB 39), school building size limits (HB 53), processes for creating new school districts (HB 169), public education capital outlay amendments (HB 170), and tax and retirement measures (HB 183, HB 58). The report concluded with the committee—s signature line.

The Rules Committee also recommended, at the written request of a sponsor, that HJR 7 (resolution on special sessions of the legislature) be replaced with the first substitute and be referred to the Government Operations standing committee. The committee further recommended that HR 4 (House Rules Resolution, Witness Oath) be placed at the top of the third-reading calendar under suspension of the rules.

Floor members discussed procedural clarifications, including whether fiscal notes were present for certain bills; the transcript shows a member asking for confirmation that fiscal notes and approval documents had been provided, though no specific fiscal-note texts were read into the record during this exchange.

After the motion to adopt the Rules Committee report was made from the floor, the presiding officer put the question; members voted in favor and the motion passed. The House then carried out routine scheduling announcements and adjourned until 10 a.m. the following day.