Committee gives due‑pass recommendations to Rules Committee for multiple bills after executive session

After concluding the public testimony segment, the committee moved into executive session for staff briefings on numerous bills and then returned to record motions and voice votes recommending that several bills receive due‑pass recommendations to the Rules Committee.

Staff briefed bills including SB 5,988 (opioid treatment accreditation fees), SB 5,872 (Pre‑K Promise account), SB 5,879 (JLARC report eliminations), SB 5,834 (expanded uses of retirement system interest—substitute proposed and adopted), SB 5,835 (lump sum pension threshold), SB 5,905 (port employee retirement membership—substitute adopted), SB 5,832 (new motor vehicle arbitration fee), SB 6,177 (LEAP website data expansions), second substitute SB 5,496 (limits on single‑family ownership by certain entities), and others. Fiscal notes, available amendments, and staff recommendations were summarized.

The committee then took voice votes on a series of motions to recommend bills to the Rules Committee. The transcript records motions moved by Senator (speaker 38 in the transcript) and seconded; the chair called voice votes and recorded outcomes such as: "By your vote, Senate Bill 5,872 has received a due pass recommendation to the rules committee," and similar language for many bills. Several proposed substitutes and amendments were adopted by voice vote prior to the due‑pass motions. The committee also noted it would not take action that evening on SB 5,988.

Because these were voice votes, no roll‑call tallies were recorded in the transcript; staff noted that recommendations were "subject to signatures."