House Calendar and Rules Committee places dozens of bills on Thursday's regular calendar

The House Calendar and Rules Committee advanced dozens of bills for floor consideration, placing most on Thursday's regular calendar and identifying one consent item for streamlined consideration.

The committee meeting opened with the chair calling the body to order and the clerk reading members present. The chair said the committee would take up both Calendar 1 and Calendar 2 and then proceeded through a sequence of roll calls on individual House bills, calling for a voice vote on each measure. For each item the chair asked, 'All in favor, say aye,' members responded and the chair placed the bills on Thursday's regular calendar.

The procedural pace allowed the committee to act without extended debate. A committee member moved, 'I move to roll this to final calendar 2,' which was seconded and carried without objection; the chair subsequently moved the item to Final Calendar 2. Later in the meeting a member requested that item 16 be rolled to the last calendar because it had failed over in the Senate; the chair agreed and the motion was approved. Near the midpoint of the session the chair announced, 'This is the bill that is actually on consent, the only consent that we have,' identifying House Bill 1932 as the lone consent placement.

Votes at a glance House Bill 0659 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1369 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 2585 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 0545 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1709 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 0338 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 2119 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1380 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1572 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1619 — Placed on Thursday's regular calendar. House Bill 1932 — Designated the committee's sole consent item and placed on the Thursday consent calendar.

Several items were 'rolled to the hill' or to later calendars for scheduling reasons; toward the end of the meeting the vice chairman moved to roll remaining items to the next calendar, a motion the chair accepted. The committee also agreed to take up House Bill 2277 (item 23) earlier to keep related floor business together.

There were no recorded roll-call tallies in the transcript; the committee used unanimous voice approval and the chair announced placements after each voice vote. With its agenda complete the chair said members could leave and adjourned the meeting.