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Committee moves 31 items, creates consent calendar and rolls remaining bills
Summary
The committee advanced numerous bills to calendar and rules, approved leadership use of a consent calendar, and rolled unheards to future calendars; votes included confirmations, routine observances and administrative cleanups.
The State and Local Government Committee advanced a broad calendar of items on Feb. 18 and adopted a procedure to use a consent calendar for future meetings. The chair reported the committee had 31 bills on the calendar and worked through a number of routine and substantive items.
Notable committee votes reported in session included:
- House Joint Resolution 0877 (governor’s minority appointment to the ethics commission, nominee Dewey Branstetter): committee vote recorded as 22 ayes, 0 nos; resolution moved on to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 1453 (private act for the city of Portland): voted 22 ayes, 0 nos; moved on to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 1633 (bank-information confidentiality): committee received legal counsel’s guidance that certain bank records would be confidential under the Public Records Act but could be produced under subpoena in law-enforcement matters; bill recorded as 18 ayes, 4 nos and moved to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 1629 (Songwriting Month observance): moved on with recorded vote 21 ayes, 2 nos.
- House Bill 1467 (disaster grant procurement streamlining): 20 ayes, 0 nos; moved to calendar and rules.
- House Bill 0957 (include foster parents in state paid parental leave): 20 ayes, 1 no; moved to calendar and rules.
Committee leadership moved and the panel approved a consent-calendar procedure (17 ayes, 3 nos), with the chair noting any item on a consent calendar can be removed for separate consideration by any member. The chair also announced bills not heard that day would be rolled to the next one- and two-week calendars.
The committee adjourned after finishing business for the day.
