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Votes at a glance: House adopts a slate of conference reports across education, health, utilities and more
Summary
The House processed and adopted numerous conference reports across the printed calendar — including bills on AI in schools, juvenile/prison education, child-welfare intake, solar contractor protections, heat-illness standards, and others. Most conference reports were agreed to by recorded voice vote during the session.
The House took up a large batch of conference reports across the printed calendar and adopted them by recorded voice vote. Highlights include:
- Automatic voter registration work group (HB 319 / SB 658): Adopted; directs the Secretary of Administration to convene a work group to strengthen back-end opt‑out automatic voter registration (vote announced 61–31).
- Remote patient monitoring for pregnancy (HB 425): Conference compromise expands coverage for high‑risk pregnant individuals through 12 months postpartum and directs a report by Nov. 1, 2026 (vote announced 86–9).
- Private school bullying codes (HB 894): Aligns private‑school bullying requirements with the Senate cognate (vote announced 65–30).
- Recovery residences regulation (HB 931 / SB 270): Conference report delays two regulatory enactments by six months to allow DBDHS additional time (vote announced 94–0).
- Prison education (HB 1041): Restores agency names and an enactment clause for literacy components after Senate amendments (vote announced 94–0).
- AI guidance in schools (HB 1186 / SB 394): Conference texts aligned to streamline definitions and require guidance on use of AI in instruction (vote announced 95–0).
- Solar contractor consumer protections (HB 1439 / SB 823): Conference reports made bills identical and strengthened consumer protections for residential solar installations (votes announced 91–4 and 92–3).
- Child abuse hotline centralization (HB 1490 / SB 640): Standardizes intake and requires investigations within 24 hours for children ages 0–3; implementation timelines were extended to allow for state-level setup (votes announced 93–1 and 92–0).
- Multiple other conference reports (heat illness protections, lottery/fantasy contest regulation, continuing care provider meeting requirements, concealed-handgun reciprocity, electric utility reporting, locality conflict-of-interest measures, and more) were presented and agreed to during the session. The clerk made the conference reports available to members and the public as each was read. The House adjourned and planned to reconvene the next day at 10:00 a.m.
