2026 Regular Session
SB41
Expands the number of days required for public bodies to publish minutes for open meetings from twenty days to forty-five days. (8/1/26)
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: This measure delays the public’s access to meeting records by more than doubling the current timeline. Timely publication of minutes is essential for transparency, accountability, and meaningful public engagement. Extending the deadline to forty-five days unnecessarily weakens those principles. With modern technological advances the timeline for publication should be shrinking, not expanding.
Recorded floor votes
3 roll calls are available for this bill. This record includes procedural and intermediate action as well as substantive final votes.
March 23, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on SB 41 FINAL PASSAGE (#94)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
34 yea–0 nay · 4 absent
May 11, 2026 · House
House Vote on SB 41 FINAL PASSAGE (#1105)
Passed ⭐ Substantive final action
98 yea–0 nay · 7 absent
May 18, 2026 · Senate
Senate Vote on SB 41 CONCUR (#890)
Passed
36 yea–0 nay · 3 absent
Committee referrals
March 25, 2026 · House
House and Governmental Affairs
February 10, 2026 · Senate
Local & Municipal 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 Effective date 8/1/2026.
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Senate Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 348.
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Senate Sent to the Governor by the Secretary of the Senate.
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House Signed by the Speaker of the House.
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Senate Enrolled. Signed by the President of the Senate.
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Senate Amendments proposed by the House read and concurred in by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays. View roll call
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Senate Received from the House with amendments.
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House Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, ordered to the Senate. View roll call
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House Scheduled for floor debate on 05/11/2026.
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House Read by title, amended, passed to 3rd reading.
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House Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments.
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House Reported with amendments (6-4). Referred to the Legislative Bureau.
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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 Received in the House from the Senate, read by title, lies over under the rules.
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Senate Read by title, passed by a vote of 34 yeas and 0 nays, and sent to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. View roll call
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Senate Read by title. Ordered engrossed and passed to third reading and final passage.
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Senate Reported favorably.
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Senate Introduced in the Senate; read by title. Rules suspended. Read second time and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.
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Senate Prefiled and under the rules provisionally referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.