Clerk reads House-passed bills to the 2026 Senate, including measures on absentee voting and school policy
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Summary
On April 7, 2026, the Senate clerk read a list of bills the House passed and sent to the Senate for consideration, covering absentee voting stations, school discipline and attendance, insurance coverage provisions, and several administrative and facilities-related measures.
The Senate received a list of bills passed by the House on April 7, 2026, when the secretary/reading clerk presented the measures to the chamber. The clerk read bills described in the record as relating to Franklin Lane satellite absentee voting stations (recorded as “Senate file 140”), various school governance and attendance issues, discipline provisions, insurance coverage rules, self-storage facility regulations and election conduct provisions.
The clerk said the House had passed the listed measures and transmitted them to the Senate for its consideration. The reading included bills the transcript identifies as Senate File 140; Senate File 2219; Senate File 2428; House File 2434; House File 2200; House File 640; House File 2501; House File 2591; and House File 2678. The clerk did not provide text summaries beyond the names as read into the record.
The presiding officer announced (without recorded debate or votes in the transcript) that one bill, recorded as Senate File 2449, was referred from the calendar to the Committee on Ways and Means pursuant to Rule 38. No roll-call votes or formal debate on these measures appear in the provided transcript.
Because the clerk’s reading was a formal transmission of House-passed measures, the next steps for each bill—committee referral, hearings, or floor action—depend on the Senate’s scheduling and committee procedures. The transcript does not record committee assignments for each bill beyond the single referral to Ways and Means for Senate File 2449.
