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Votes at a glance: Feb. 10, 2026 — emergency housing sales‑tax exemption and other measures adopted
Summary
During the Feb. 10 session the House passed an emergency sales‑tax exemption for off‑site housing construction and finally passed a parks land‑transaction resolve requiring a two‑thirds vote; several other engrossed bills and naming resolves were sent for concurrence or enactment.
The House handled a set of engrossed bills and emergency measures on Feb. 10. Highlights from the session’s floor activity include:
Emergency housing sales‑tax exemption (Senate bill / LD 1419): The committee recommended passage of an emergency measure providing a sales tax exemption for housing constructed off‑site (parity with on‑site construction). The House considered the bill under the constitution’s emergency‑measure rules and reported the motion prevailed; the clerk recorded that the bill was signed by the speaker and sent to the Senate.
Resolve authorizing Bureau of Parks land transactions (LD 2006): The clerk reported final passage of a resolve authorizing the director of the Bureau of Parks and Recreation to make certain land transactions. Because the measure required a two‑thirds affirmative vote under Article 9, section 23, the clerk recorded 108 votes in the affirmative, meeting the constitutional threshold for final passage.
Other engrossed items: The committee on engrossed bills reported items including a plan to add an online reporting option for suspected abuse, neglect and exploitation of adults and a resolve to name a facility in Dover‑Foxcroft; the House passed the listed bills and ordered them to be signed by the speaker and sent to the Senate or engraved as required.
Where the transcript records vote tallies, those counts are included above; for some emergency passage entries the excerpt reports the motion prevailing without a detailed roll‑call count in the provided text.
