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Votes at a glance: several bills passed, including outdoor recreation grants, vandalism penalties and revenue bonds
Summary
The Senate passed a set of bills under suspension of the rules and by roll-call votes, moving measures on outdoor recreation grants, vandalism on public lands, revenue bonds for higher education and other items to the House for consideration.
The Senate advanced a batch of bills during the evening session and returned several items to rules before adjourning. Key outcomes included:
- First Substitute Senate Bill 249 (outdoor recreation grant amendments): Sponsor Senator Okerlund said the program is funded primarily by transient room tax (about $5,000,000/year) and the bill allows dedicated credits to be used for restoration, operations and maintenance; the Senate passed the bill (27–0, 2 absent) and will send it to the House.
- Senate Bill 270 (vandalism of public lands): Senator Cullimore said the bill creates misdemeanor penalties for vandalism on public lands and ties penalties to community service rather than fines to emphasize remediation for youth offenders. The Senate passed the bill (26–0, 3 absent) and will send it to the House.
- Senate Bill 9 (revenue bonds and capital facilities authorizations): The annual revenue-bond bill for higher-education institutions passed under suspension of the rules (27–0, 2 absent).
- First Substitute Senate Bill 269 (military development authority/MITA): The substitute clarifies MITA's land-use authority, annexation and tax-exempt provisions related to military recreation and project areas; the Senate passed the substitute (29–0) and will forward it to the House.
Other bills were substituted, circled, returned to rules or concurred and returned to the House later in the session; a full list of roll-call tallies is recorded in the session transcript.
