House reports passage of a package of bills to the Senate; Senate adjourns until March 23, 2026

The presiding officer called the Senate to order and directed the secretary to read messages from the House. Joseph Engler, chief clerk of the House, read a series of messages stating that the House had taken up and passed numerous bills and substitutes across policy areas and had requested the Senate’s concurrence on at least one item.

The House messages, as read by Engler, reported passage of Senate substitute No. 3 for Senate Bill 888 and a large package of House bills and committee substitutes. The items named in the clerk’s reading included (formatting normalized for clarity): House Bills 2273, 1946, 1814 and 2551 (committee substitutes, as amended); House Joint Resolutions 173 and 174 relating to taxation; House Bills 2069 and 2208 on autonomous vehicles; House Bill 1812 on maintenance of voter rolls; House Bill 3308 on a sales-tax exemption; House Bill 3010 relating to prior authorization of health-care services; House Bill 2872 on elementary-literacy measures; House Bills 1826, 2560, 2349 and 2194 addressing epinephrine-delivery systems with penalty provisions; House Bills 2642, 2296, 1966 and 1680 concerning insurance coverage of alternatives to opioid drugs; House Bill 1749 on veteran preferences for contracts; House Bill 2610 on the State Legal Expense Fund; House Bill 1696 (subject in the transcript was garbled and could not be transcribed clearly); House Bill 1867 on transient guest taxes; House Bill 2742 on careless operation of a motor vehicle with penalty provisions; House Bill 2103 on protections against document fraud with penalty provisions; and House Bill 2586, an act relating to credit unions, for which the House specifically requested the Senate’s concurrence.

The clerk’s reading contained repetitions and digit-grouping artifacts in the raw transcript (for example, bill numbers were read with spaces between digit groups). Where the transcript was unclear, this article notes the original uncertainty: the subject line read aloud for House Bill 1696 was unintelligible in the record and is reported here as "transcript unclear." Engler concluded the set of messages with the customary signature line, "respectfully submitted. Joseph Engler, chief clerk."

After the clerk finished, the presiding officer moved that the Senate stand adjourned until Monday, March 23, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. A voice vote was taken; the presiding officer announced that the ayes appeared to have it, and the Senate stood adjourned.

Because the messages were delivered as formal communications from the House rather than debated on the Senate floor, there was no recorded Senate debate or amendment on the items during this session. The House-passed measures will appear on the Senate’s docket for any required action, including concurrence requests such as the credit-union bill noted by the clerk.