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Votes at a glance: key bills the committee reported out and their outcomes
Summary
The committee considered more than two dozen bills. Many were reported out with do-pass recommendations (examples: HB 3,037 reported 10-1; HB 3,581 12-0; HB 30 87 13-0). One notable failure: HB 2,940 (public recording of meetings) failed 3-10.
The committee took votes on a wide range of bills and reported most out with do-pass recommendations. Major outcomes recorded in committee included:
- HB 3,037 (amend Government Tort Claims Act to include students engaged in curricular activities as employees): reported do-pass, 10-1.
- HB 3,581 (revisions to riot statutes and penalty phases): reported do-pass, 12-0.
- HB 40 58 (optional blood type on driver's license): reported do-pass, 12-0.
- HB 29 29 (strengthening mandatory child-abuse reporting by school employees to law enforcement within 24 hours): reported do-pass, 12-0.
- HB 30 87 (garnishment notice timelines): reported do-pass, 13-0.
- HB 3,521 (Money Transmission Modernization Act; industry request): reported do-pass, 13-0.
- HB 3,695 (expanding 'great bodily injury' definition for DUI cases): reported do-pass, 12-0.
- HB 2,940 (affirming that public bodies cannot prohibit recording public meetings): failed in committee, 3-10.
- HB 14 53 (hostile foreign ownership and criminal penalties): reported out narrowly, 10-9 (see separate story).
Several other bills were reported with unanimous recommendations or policy recommendations; a handful were laid over for further work. Many presenters described bills as constituent or agency requests and told the committee they were willing to consider technical amendments before floor action.
The committee adjourned and scheduled to meet again Thursday to continue work.
