Senate adopts amendment and passes House Tax and Revenue committee substitute for House Bill 2332

Senators moved to replace an earlier amendment and then voted to pass the House Tax and Revenue Committee substitute for House Bill 2332 as amended, approving the measure 7-1 with three senators excused.

Senator Padilla introduced the substitute amendment, saying it adds four items that "were submitted on time" but "simply, for whatever reason, did not make it into the bill." He told colleagues he was holding three pages of timestamped submissions to support that claim.

The move to adopt amendment 234204.2 was made by Senator Padilla and seconded by Senator Sendo. After adopting the amendment, Padilla moved that the body pass the committee substitute for House Bill 2332 as amended; Senator Steinborn provided the second.

During roll call, Senator Brandt voted no. Senators Campos, Gonzales, Padilla, Steinborn, Trujillo, Shando and Munoz voted yes. Senators Lanier, Tobiasen and Woods were recorded as excused. The chair announced the final tally as seven in the affirmative and one in the negative, and declared the measure passed.

After the vote, Padilla thanked colleagues for reconvening to consider the omitted items. The chair remarked that the omission was the responsibility of "council," saying, "Well, it wasn't our fault. It was council's fault." The Senate then adjourned.

The action on House Bill 2332 was procedural and limited to the committee substitute as presented on the floor; no further details about the four items added by the amendment were provided in the record beyond Padilla's statement that three were in his district and one was outside it.