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Votes at a glance: key bills the Senate passed or transmitted
Summary
The Senate recorded a series of votes on consent and third-reading items, transmitting multiple House bills and approving Senate measures on consent. Tallies on the floor included unanimous or near-unanimous results on several items; selected vote totals are listed below.
During the floor session the Senate recorded votes and transmitted or passed a number of bills. Below are key actions and the vote totals reported on the record.
- House Bill 27 (Underground storage tank act amendments): placed on consent, the president directed a unanimous vote and the bill passed and was sent to the House for the speaker's signature.
- House Bill 44 (creates permanent child support advisory guidelines committee): passed on consent with a recorded tally of 25 yeas, 0 nays, 4 absent; sent to the House.
- Senate Bill 80 (license plate/sticker-related provisions): the transcript records that SB80 received 27 yeas, 0 nays, 2 absent and was sent to the House.
- Senate Bill 40 (workers' compensation dependent payment increase): passed on roll-call with 28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent; sent to the House.
- First substitute Senate Bill 75 (labor code amendments; fix-it ticket process): passed on roll-call with 28 yeas, 0 nays, 1 absent; will be transmitted to the House.
- SCR 9 (support for Olympic exploratory committee): adopted under suspension of rules with 29 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent and sent to the House.
- Substitute House Bill 1 (public education base budget): passed under suspension of rules with 29 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent and sent to the House.
- Substitute House Bills 5, 6 and 7 (Natural Resources; Executive Offices and Criminal Justice; Social Services base budgets): each passed by roll call with recorded tallies of 29 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent as recorded on the floor and were transmitted to the House.
Where the floor transcript reports an aggregate tally on the record that line is cited above; some items were adopted by unanimous voice or had substitution actions preceding final roll calls. The Senate president signed and directed enrollment or transmission for the listed items.
