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Votes at a glance: House Transportation Committee — March 19, 2026
Summary
The committee passed multiple transportation measures with amendments on March 19, including bills on towing/impound rules, a GET exemption for aircraft maintenance, driver renewal education, deafness vehicle designation, port pilot licensure, emergency-services CDL exemptions, and the automated speed-enforcement fund ceiling.
The House Committee on Transportation voted on a package of measures on March 19 and adopted recommendations with amendments on each item listed below.
- SB 2697 SD1 (towing/impound; registration penalties): Committee recommended passage with amendments; vote recorded as adopted. Clerk recorded aye votes from the chair, vice chair, and several representatives, and the recommendation was adopted.
- SB 2399 SD2 (general excise tax exemption for aircraft maintenance parts/facilities): Committee recommended passage with amendments; the recommendation was filed with no recorded no votes.
- SP 2665 SD2 (driver's-license renewal education for applicants with qualifying citations): Committee recommended passage with amendments, including raising the trigger threshold to two citations in five years and adopting Attorney General drafting changes.
- SB 2851 SD1 (vehicle registration designation for deaf motor-vehicle owners): Committee recommended passage with amendments; passed.
- SB 3102 SD2 (port pilot licensure and standards): Committee recommended passage with amendments; passed with stakeholder support from harbors, pilots, maritime groups and unions.
- SB 2521 SD1 (emergency-services CDL exemption and related training documentation): Committee recommended passage with amendments; passed.
- SB 3157 (automated speed-enforcement special-fund disposition): Committee adopted amendments raising the fund ceiling to $25,000,000, added procurement/reprocurement language, and recommended passage; passed with no recorded no votes.
Each recommendation was announced by committee staff during the hearing; the committee report will reflect the adopted technical, drafting, and policy amendments before the measures proceed further in the House process.
