The Committee on Business & Commerce took roll-call votes on a series of bills and reported them to the full Senate, moving dozen-plus measures forward with committee recommendations.

The committee chair opened the meeting by establishing a quorum and laying out a long set of pending-business items. Multiple bills were presented as matters of pending business, several with committee substitutes adopted before the roll-call votes. Senator Campbell, Senator King and other members repeatedly moved that bills be reported favorably to the full Senate “with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed,” or the procedural equivalent when a committee substitute was adopted in lieu of the filed bill. Clerk roll calls followed each motion.

Outcomes included favorable committee reports (typical tally: 8–11 ayes, 0–3 nays on the specific measures recorded) and referrals to local and uncontested or local and contested calendars as noted in the committee record. Several bills were handled largely by unanimous or near-unanimous voice/roll-call votes with little committee debate recorded in the transcript.

Because the measures were advanced as committee business with formal roll-call tallies and no extended floor-style debate in committee, the actions preserve the bills’ records for full-Senate consideration. Specific bill numbers called and reported by the committee during the session included (as read on the record): Senate Bill 438; Senate Bill 512; Senate Bill 647 (committee substitute adopted); Senate Bill 648 (committee substitute adopted); Senate Bill 758; Senate Bill 1964 (committee substitute adopted); Senate Bill 2121 (committee substitute adopted); Senate Bill 2145; Senate Bill 2167; Senate Bill 2330 (committee substitute adopted); Senate Bill 2349; Senate Bill 2443; Senate Bill 2629; Senate Bill 2702; Senate Bill 2864 (later debated in committee); Senate Bill 1495; Senate Bill 2268; and additional bills reported later in the day. The committee recorded each bill’s outcome on the transcript and forwarded reported bills to the appropriate calendar as noted on the record.

Votes at a glance (selected on-record roll calls in committee):
- Senate Bill 438: reported favorably (on record: 8 ayes, 0 nays) and sent to local and uncontested calendar.
- Senate Bill 512: reported favorably (on record: 8 ayes, 0 nays) and sent to local and contested calendar.
- Senate Bill 647 (substitute adopted): substitute reported favorably (on record, committee recorded the substitute adoption and the do-pass recommendation).
- Senate Bill 715 (committee substitute adopted; later voted 6–4 in committee — see separate article on debate).
- Senate Bill 758: reported favorably (7 ayes, 3 nays) and sent to full Senate.
- Multiple other bills (19 64, 21 21, 21 45, 21 67, 23 30, 23 49, 24 43, 26 29, 27 02 and others) were reported by the committee with roll-call tallies recorded on the transcript.

The committee’s minutes reflected adoption of committee substitutes where sponsors offered updated language and repeated practice of sending reported measures to the local and uncontested or local and contested calendars. Because the committee votes were procedural (reporting bills to the full Senate) and most of the measures had little or no public testimony in this hearing, the committee record shows a high rate of bills advanced in bulk.

Less procedural matters and items that drew testimony or extended debate were taken up and left pending by the committee; those appear in separate articles where the transcript records public testimony and substantive exchange.

Ending: The committee recessed after completing votes and hearing several longer items later in the agenda; recorded motions and roll-call results were entered into the committee record and the reported bills were forwarded to their respective calendars for consideration by the full Senate.