Secretary reads long list of House-passed bills to the Senate, many focus on education and health

The State Senate opened on March 3, 2026, with the secretary reading into the record that the House had passed multiple bills and a concurrent resolution on March 3, 2026. "Madam President, the House has, on 03/03/2026, passed the following bills," the secretary announced, and then read a sequence of file numbers and descriptions.

The reading covered a broad set of measures, with the bulk addressing K–12 and higher education topics, including files described in the record as relating to extracurricular participation and open enrollment alternatives, curriculum and social-studies instruction, the department of education's reporting on reading and mathematics proficiency, community college frameworks, and changes to authorizations and endorsements for educators. Other items in the reading concerned health-care professional regulation, health-related matters and workforce-related technical education provisions.

The secretary's reading also included several House-file numbers and references to bills addressing peer-to-peer car sharing, higher-education employment contracts referencing visa status, and other measures the record lists by file number. The transcript of the reading contains multiple unclear or garbled names and titles for some bills and sponsors; where the reading was unclear, this article reports the substance as presented on the floor rather than restoring or substituting alternate bill titles.

There was no debate or vote recorded at the time of the reading; the announcement served as formal Senate notice that the House had passed the listed measures and transmitted them to the Senate for its consideration.

Next steps: bills read into the Senate record are typically assigned to committees and scheduled for committee action or further floor consideration; the secretary did not announce committee referrals during the reading.