The Senate Committee on Local Government met in a procedural session to consider and report multiple Senate bills to the full Senate, adopting several committee substitutes and recommending a number of measures for the local and uncontested calendar.

The committee, chaired by Chairman Bettencourt, recorded votes on more than a dozen bills. Most motions were procedural (adopt committee substitute; report bill to full Senate) and carried by margins shown in the roll calls. Several bills were explicitly moved to the ‘‘local and uncontested’’ calendar.

Why it matters: reporting a bill out of committee with a committee substitute and recommending it for the local and uncontested calendar advances the measures toward floor consideration with limited further amendment in committee. The session included few substantive debates; the committee primarily completed roll-call business to move measures forward.

Key outcomes (votes at a glance):
- Senate Bill 472 — Motion to report to the full Senate “do pass and be printed.” Result: 5 ayes, 1 nay; outcome recorded as passed by the committee.
- Senate Bill 414 — Committee substitute adopted; motion to report the original bill as do-not-pass and the committee substitute as do-pass and be printed. Result: 5 ayes, 1 nay; committee substitute reported.
- Senate Bill 578 — Committee substitute adopted and reported to the full Senate. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 710 — Reported to the full Senate as do-pass and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 785 — Reported to the full Senate as do-pass and be printed. Result: 5 ayes, 1 nay.
- Senate Bill 973 — Reported as do-pass and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1062 — Committee substitute adopted; reported and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1352 — Reported as do-pass and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1547 — Committee substitute adopted and reported; recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1450 — Reported as do-pass and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.
- Senate Bill 1502 — Reported as do-pass and be printed. Result: 5 ayes, 1 nay.
- Senate Bill 1566 — Reported as do-pass and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. Result: 6 ayes, 0 nays.

Procedure and context: the meeting was largely procedural. The clerk called roll and the chair recognized movers for committee-substitute adoptions and motions to report. Where committee substitutes were adopted, the committee then voted to report the substitute in lieu of the filed bill. Several bills were explicitly placed on the local and uncontested calendar without objection.

No substantive floor debate, amendments, or public testimony on policy content were recorded in the provided transcript. The transcript shows the committee used electronic registration but did not engage in extended deliberations on the merits of the bills during this session.

Next steps: reported bills will proceed to floor consideration by the full Senate per regular order; measures designated for the local and uncontested calendar may be scheduled for expedited consideration on the Senate floor.