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Senate Finance Committee: committee votes and reported items from the hearing

April 02, 2025 | Committee on Finance, Senate, Legislative, Texas


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Senate Finance Committee: committee votes and reported items from the hearing
At the end of the session the Senate Committee on Finance called roll‑call votes on multiple committee substitutes and bills. The clerk recorded the following outcomes during the committee’s roll calls; tallies are quoted exactly as recorded in the transcript when available.

Votes recorded on the transcript

- Committee substitute to SJR 4 (proposed constitutional amendment to raise the Economic Stabilization Fund cap from 10% to 15%): Committee reported the committee substitute favorably to the full Senate. Vote recorded as “13 ayes, 1 present not voting.”

- Committee substitute Senate Bill 2,064: Reported favorably to the full Senate; transcript recorded “14 ayes, no nays.”

- Committee substitute Senate Bill 16 20 (Texas Forensic Analyst Apprenticeship Pilot Program): Reported favorably to the full Senate; transcript recorded “15 ayes, no nays.”

- Senate Bill 13 71 (changes related to certain metropolitan transit authorities / Corpus Christi RTA): Reported favorably to the full Senate; transcript recorded “14 ayes, no nays.” The sponsor moved to certify the bill for the local and uncontested calendar and the motion was ordered.

- Senate Bill 2,065 (changes to the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System to provide actuarially determined state contributions and amortize unfunded liabilities): Reported favorably to the full Senate; transcript recorded “15 ayes, no nays.”

- Committee substitute Senate Bill 20 64 / references to committee substitute Senate Bill 2,064 and others: multiple committee substitutes were adopted without recorded objection and sent forward; when the clerk called votes the transcript shows the committee reported the items favorably (see above entries for specific recorded vote counts).

Bills left pending or otherwise not voted on at this hearing

- Senate Bill 13 77 (rural ambulance grant program presented by Sen. Charles Perry): extensive testimony was heard, a committee substitute was offered and public testimony closed; the bill was left pending for additional drafting and fiscal analysis (no final committee vote recorded at this hearing).

- The bill presented earlier that would exempt inherited vehicle transfers from motor‑vehicle tax (presented by Sen. Perry in the same hearing): committee indicated there will be a committee sub and the bill was left pending.

Notes on interpretation

- The committee frequently adopted committee substitutes “without objection” before calling recorded votes; where a numerical roll call tally was spoken into the record, it is reported above verbatim. Several items were explicitly left pending earlier in the hearing and therefore did not receive a committee floor vote at this session.

Ending

Committee actions reported several bills and substitutes favorably to the full Senate and left other measures pending for additional drafting and fiscal work. The transcript records the numeric tallies above where the clerk called the roll; interested readers should consult the official committee report and the posted minutes for the formal record and the exact bill captions.

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