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Appropriations committee advances package of bills on child safety, worker protections and retirement COLAs
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee advanced multiple bills including requirements for carbon monoxide alarms in childcare (HB156), a public employees occupational safety and health act (HB308), scaled COLAs for certain retirees (HB411), and measures on youth driver's licenses and drug-and-alcohol reporting; all items were called up and advanced to the floor or passed by the committee.
At a meeting of the House Appropriations Committee, members advanced several bills to the full House, with motions and roll calls recorded for each item.
The committee’s executive director summarized the package at the start, saying, “House bill 156 amends the human service code to require childcare centers or family childcare homes to install carbon monoxide alarms,” and that “House bill 308 establishes the public employees occupational safety and health act,” and giving brief descriptions of HB 411, HB 472, HB 640, HB 764 and HB 819. The committee then took votes on each item.
Representative Waxman moved to call up House Bill 156, House Bill 472 and House Bill 640 as a package; Representative Abney seconded. The chair announced there was no discussion and recorded that there were no negative votes; the chair declared the package passed unanimously.
Representative Bellman moved to call up House Bill 308, seconded by Representative Creel. The committee conducted a roll call; multiple members were recorded voting in the affirmative while a number of members were recorded as voting no or recording a designation. The chair declared, “the ayes have it,” and announced that HB 308 will pass the committee.
Representative Webster moved to call up House Bill 411, with Representative Brennan seconding. There was no discussion. Following a roll call the chair announced, “the ayes have it,” and said HB 411 will pass and be referred to the floor. The executive director had summarized HB 411 as providing “scaled cost of living adjustments for qualifying beneficiaries of the public school employees retirement system (PSERS) and the state employees retirement system who retire before July 02, 2001.”
Representative Young moved to call up House Bill 764 and House Bill 819 as a package; Representative Fleming seconded. The chair noted party-line voting was expected, stating that “all of the Democrats will be voting in the affirmative, and all of the Republicans will be voting in the negative.” The chair then announced that the ayes have it and both bills will pass and be referred back to the floor.
The committee concluded its business and the chair adjourned the meeting.
Votes and formal actions recorded in the committee transcript were: the package of HB 156/HB 472/HB 640 (called up and passed unanimously), HB 308 (called up and passed by roll call, chair declared ayes have it), HB 411 (called up, passed and referred to the floor), and the package HB 764/HB 819 (called up, passed with the chair recording majority support as described). The transcript records named motions and seconders (Waxman/Abney; Bellman/Creel; Webster/Brennan; Young/Fleming) and roll-call exchanges, but the transcript does not provide a single complete line-by-line tally for every member for each vote; where individual members’ responses are recorded in the transcript those responses are reflected in the meeting timeline and actions list.
