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House hears committee reports, introduces several bills including workplace LGBTQ protections and school-safety measures
Summary
The House received multiple committee reports recommending referrals and one postponement, introduced six new House bills on topics from postsecondary workforce oversight to conversion-therapy civil actions, and approved a motion to adjourn; the transcript shows an inconsistency about the stated adjournment date.
The presiding officer called the House to order and the clerk read committee reports recommending referrals, amendments and a postponement for multiple House bills.
Committee reports included a Business Affairs and Labor recommendation that “House bills 12 28 and 12 45 be referred to the committee of the whole with favor recommendation,” an Education committee recommendation that “House bill 11 93 be referred to the committee of the whole with favor recommendation” and that “House bill 10 93 be postponed indefinitely,” a Health and Human Services recommendation that “House bill 11 94 be amended” and then referred with a favorable recommendation, and a Transportation, Housing, and Local Government recommendation that three bills (transcribed as “11 92,” “12 o 2,” and “12 57,” with the middle number unclear in the transcript) as amended be referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The clerk then introduced several House bills and announced committee assignments. House bill 13 17, sponsored in the House by Representatives McCluskey and Tigard and in the Senate by Senators Bridges and Frizzell, was introduced “concerning creating a unified system of post secondary talent development” and assigned to the Committee on Education. House bill 13 18, by Representatives Winn and Froelich, concerns traffic safety near schools and was assigned to the Committee on Transportation, Housing, and Local Government. House bill 13 19, by Representatives Camacho and Joseph and Senator Gonzales, was introduced “concerning the right of an employee to be open about their LGBTQ plus identity in the work in the workplace” and assigned to the Committee on Business Affairs and Labor. House bill 13 20, by Representatives Wynne and Garcia, would require accessible ballot-title language and permit modification of statutorily required language; it was assigned to the Committee on State, Civic, Military, and Veterans Affairs. House bill 13 21, by Representatives At Stuart R and Hammock and Senator Cutter, concerns modification of the school security disbursement program and was assigned to the Committee on Education. House bill 13 22, by Representatives Valdez and McCormick and Senators Cutter and Moolca, concerns civil actions related to conversion-therapy efforts and was assigned to the Committee on Judiciary.
On the floor, a member moved, “Madam Speaker, I move that the House stand in adjournment until Thursday, March 5 at 9AM.” The presiding officer then stated, “The House is adjourned until tomorrow at 9AM.” The transcript records both statements; it does not record a roll-call vote on the motion and the statements show an apparent inconsistency about the adjournment date.
No final committee-of-the-whole or floor votes on the introduced bills are recorded in the transcript. The actions recorded are committee recommendations, an amendment directive for one bill, the postponement of House bill 10 93, and the floor motion and adjournment announcement. Further floor action (committee-of-the-whole consideration, amendments adopted on the floor, or votes) is not contained in this transcript.
The House recessed/adjourned following the announcements; the next procedural steps listed were committee referrals and the assignments noted above.
