Votes at a glance: several Senate bills advanced and passed on the House floor
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Summary
The House advanced and passed a batch of Senate bills on third reading after floor amendments and brief debate, including S.B. 62‑46 (emissions), S.B. 50‑68 (work authorization changes for certain public employers), S.B. 61‑94 (hospital payments), and multiple bills on property tax and public safety. Vote tallies are listed below.
The House handled a large group of engrossed and substitute Senate bills, adopting floor amendments on some measures and recording roll‑call votes on final passage.
Key outcomes (floor recorded tallies):
- Engrossed S.B. 62‑46 (emissions, amended): passed 57 yeas, 38 nays, 3 excused. Debate focused on carve‑outs/studies for energy‑intensive trade‑exposed industries.
- Engrossed S.B. 50‑68 (work authorization for specified public employers, as amended): passed 62 yeas, 33 nays, 3 excused. Members debated expansion of hiring to workers with federal work authorization beyond lawful permanent residents for corrections, DOC and deputy prosecutors.
- Engrossed substitute S.B. 58‑47 (access to medical care/workers’ comp revisions, as amended): passed 67 yeas, 28 nays, 3 excused. Sponsors described pilot and reporting provisions for medical access and additional claims managers at L&I.
- Engrossed substitute S.B. 61‑94 (hospital/psychiatric payments): passed 95 yeas, 0 nays, 3 excused. Sponsors said the bill allows higher Medicaid‑rate payments to certain hospitals pending critical‑access designation.
- S.B. 61‑32 (port rail funding capacity): passed 95 yeas, 0 nays, 3 excused; sponsors said it increases project financing capacity for the Port of Moses Lake.
- Multiple other bills and amendments were advanced and passed on third reading, including property tax reforms to expand senior/disabled/veteran exemptions, sports‑wagering adjustments, toxicology lab contracting to reduce backlog, and crash‑prevention highway measures; recorded vote tallies and floor remarks appear in the official transcript.
Where floor debate occurred, the transcript records members’ arguments for and against amendments, the names of movers and the roll‑call tallies. For bills adopted without objection the House suspended rules to advance measures to third reading and final passage.