2026 Regular Session
HB73
Provides for the method of voting in public meetings
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
ANTI-TRANSPARENCY: Voice voting has long provided a clear and public record of proceedings that anyone can witness and understand. Replacing it with exclusively electronic voting reduces the transparency of the process and makes it harder for citizens present to independently verify how votes are cast. Longstanding practices that promote openness and transparency should not be abandoned without a compelling justification.
Recorded floor votes
1 roll call are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
April 8, 2026 · House
House Vote on HB 73 FINAL PASSAGE (#345)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
88 yea–0 nay · 17 absent
Committee referrals
April 13, 2026 · Senate
Governmental Affairs
February 3, 2026 · House
House and Governmental Affairs
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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Senate Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to 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 Senate and Governmental Affairs.
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Senate Received in the Senate. 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 88, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 04/08/2026.
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House Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported favorably (11-0).
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House Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
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House First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/6/2026.
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House Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on House and Governmental Affairs.
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House Prefiled.