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Votes at a glance: key measures the House passed on the final day of the 2026 session
Summary
On the final House day, lawmakers passed a package of bills and resolutions including SB133 (local fiscal reporting), SB70 (pension-board appointments), SB214 (agriculture authority + youth urban agriculture), SB312 (court transport authority), SB56 (Medicaid and recovery residence notice), SB129 (UI rate change), SB66 (DUI updates), SB98 (welding safety for state contracts), SB324 (film/music credits), SB261 (pedestrian bridges) and SJR116 (physician-shortage study). Tallies are provided where recorded.
The House completed floor action on multiple bills and resolutions in the final day of the regular session. Below are the principal measures called and the recorded final outcomes reported on the floor.
- House Bill 311 (railroad crossings): House concurred with Senate committee substitute and finally passed (98 yea, 0 nay) after questions about impoundment provisions were clarified.
- SB133 (fiscal reporting of local entities): Passed as amended (97 yea, 0 nay). Sponsor framed the bill as modernizing thresholds and permitting agreed-upon procedures in lieu of audits for qualifying entities.
- SB70 (public pension oversight board): Passed (97 yea, 1 nay) to add legislative chairs and the treasurer or designee as voting members on the oversight board.
- SB214 (Department of Agriculture; emergency): Passed as amended by incorporation of HB195 establishing a youth urban agricultural program (98 yea, 0 nay).
- SB312 (court order transports): Passed as amended to limit application to violent felony offenders (77 yea, 16 nay).
- SB56 (utilization controls; piggyback of recovery-residence notice): Passed as amended by piggyback (82 yea, 9 nay).
- SB129 (unemployment insurance): Passed (86 yea, 1 nay), lowering employer rates for system maintenance/upgrades.
- SJR74 (fiscal map of substance-use programs): Adopted (95 yea, 0 nay) to direct a cross-agency fiscal map of substance-use disorder funding.
- SJR116 (physician shortage study): Passed as amended (96 yea, 0 nay); committee substitute removed appropriation and a floor amendment requested a feasibility study for Owensboro with no immediate funding in the resolution.
- SB66 (DUI statutory updates): Passed as amended (79 yea, 15 nay), clarifying license suspensions for test refusals and adding certain substances for per se prosecutions.
- SB98 (welding-safety; state contracts): Passed as amended to apply to state government contracts (89 yea, 5 nay).
- SB324 (film industry credit; music industry language): Passed as amended (80 yea, 15 nay) with carryover language and incentives for local hiring referenced in floor discussion.
- SB261 (pedestrian swinging bridges): Passed (93 yea, 3 nay) permitting public entities to contribute to maintenance of disputed-ownership pedestrian bridges.
These results reflect the roll-call tallies and floor explanations recorded in the session transcript. Where a roll-call number was not recorded in the transcript excerpt, the record indicates final passage as stated by the clerk.
