2026 Regular Session
HB553
Increases the membership of the assessor's certification program committee and provides for educational requirements for certification and recertification of assessors (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
Legislative progress
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This summary includes only completed milestones supported by recorded actions. It does not predict the next step, and it preserves later committee reassignments, concurrence, conference, veto, and approval actions when they occur.
Partner positions
Dislikes
Expanding the committee from five to eleven members does not inherently improve effectiveness and may instead dilute accountability. At the same time, increasing the number of appointments controlled by the Assessors’ Association risks shifting the balance away from independent oversight toward internal control.
Recorded floor votes
2 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
March 24, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 553 FINAL PASSAGE (#63)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
100 yea–0 nay · 5 absent
May 5, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on HB 553 FINAL PASSAGE (#576)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
March 25, 2026 · Senate
Revenue & Fiscal Affairs
February 26, 2026 · House
Ways and Means
Instrument history
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This is the complete recorded action history in the current source package. Highlighted entries are marked as significant by the source. A roll-call link appears only when a vote-like action has one unambiguous same-day chamber vote.
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House Effective date: 01/01/2027.
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House Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 76.
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Senate Signed by the President of the Senate on 5/7/2026.
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House Sent to the Governor for executive approval.
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House Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
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House Received from the Senate without amendments.
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Senate Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs.
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Senate Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 99, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 03/24/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported with amendments (16-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.
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House Prefiled.