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House advances multiple bills to third reading and engrossment in expedited session
Summary
In a largely procedural session, the House suspended rules repeatedly to move a slate of bills — including measures on teacher benefits, retirement benefits, sewer‑easement release, commercial driver licenses and several local licensing bills — to third reading or passed to be engrossed.
The House met in a short procedural session on Oct. 26, 2024, advancing a package of bills and taking routine procedural actions. Members repeatedly voted to suspend Rule 7A in order to move measures to third reading and to pass a number of engrossed bills to be enacted.
Committee reports from the steering committee and the committee on Ways and Means opened the day. The steering committee recommended scheduling Senate No. 2986 (read in the record as “an act establishing a sickly bank for Kate Soet Sorm, an employee of the Department of Transitional Assistance”) and House No. 5098 (an act defining a governing structure for the Lawrence School Board upon exit from state receivership). The House suspended rules, ordered House 5098 to a third reading, read the bill for third reading and passed it to be engrossed. A subsequent motion to reconsider that passage failed.
The Ways and Means committee reported an amendment by substitution to House 2630 (relative…
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