Commerce committee adopts amendment and advances substitute for Senate Bill 973

The House Commerce Committee on [date not specified in transcript] adopted an amendment to the House committee substitute for Senate substitute for Senate Bill 973 and advanced the measure with a recorded vote. The amendment removed language that had required school-board-approved plans to show a building would be used within two years and shifted the bill—s focus from "written disclosures" to "transactions." The committee then rolled the amendment into the House committee substitute and voted to give the substitute a due-pass recommendation.

The procedural motion to adopt the amendment and to roll it into the House committee substitute was made by the presiding member of the committee and carried at the committee level. During a roll-call vote, the clerk recorded six ayes and three nos; the chair announced the motion passed.

Committee members who spoke during the executive-session discussion described the technical edits as trimming overly prescriptive language from an earlier version of the bill and aligning the bill—s scope toward property transactions. One member asked for clarification that the amendment had removed the two-year requirement; the committee verified the change was located at the bottom of page 1 into page 2 of the amendment draft.

The committee then noted it would hold House Bill 2888 and moved on to the public hearing portion of the agenda. No opposition testimony to the amendment was recorded in the transcript.

The committee—s action at this stage is a committee-level recommendation; any final change or enactment would depend on additional steps described in legislative process rules and further floor or chamber action.