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In brief: House passes multiple budget and technical bills Feb. 5 and transmits them to Senate
Summary
The House passed several substituted budget bills (HB 5, HB 6, HB 7), technical amendments (HB 33, HB 93, HB 130, HB 140, HB 131) and circled HB 94. Vote tallies reported on the floor included several unanimous or lopsided results; all bills were forwarded to the Senate as noted.
During its Feb. 5 session the House moved a series of budget and technical bills largely without extended floor debate beyond sponsor presentation.
Notable actions and votes at a glance:
- HB 5 (Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environmental Quality base budget): First substitute presented by Representative Barlow; committee described ~$370,000,000 total budget with line-item figures; substitute passed and the bill was transmitted to the Senate (72-0, as announced on the floor).
- HB 6 (Executive Offices and Criminal Justice base budget): Representative Hutchings presented the substitute and outlined major anticipated changes, including a $27,000,000 adjustment tied to internal service-fund planning; the substituted bill passed and was transmitted to the Senate.
- HB 7 (Social Services base budget): Representative Ray presented a $5.6 billion budget with approximately $980,000,000 from the General Fund and reductions totaling about $25,400,000; the substitute passed and will be forwarded to the Senate.
- HB 33 (Energy Producer States Agreement Amendments): Passed 78-0.
- HB 93 (Agriculture Commodity Zone Amendments): Passed 69-0.
- HB 130 (Resource Conservation Amendments): Passed 69-1.
- HB 140 (Air Quality Technical Amendments, substitute): Passed 71-0 after adoption of a technical substitute.
- HB 94 (Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act): Motion to circle adopted to allow stakeholder amendment work.
- HB 131 (Spendthrift provisions): Amendment adopted and bill passed 71-0.
Why it matters: These bills move large agency budgets and technical statutory changes forward in the budget and policy calendar; many will receive additional work in the Senate and committee processes.
What happens next: The bills passed by the House will be transmitted to the Senate for consideration in the 2018 legislative session.
