2025 bills / S.B. 78
S.B. 78 Homeless Individuals Protection Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a homeless services provider ombudsman inside the Office of Homeless Services and sets out the ombudsman's duties. It also lets the office make rules to carry out those duties and schedules a review of the ombudsman after five years.
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Official description
- defines terms
- creates the homeless services provider ombudsman (ombudsman) within the Office of Homeless Services (office)
- describes the duties and functions of the ombudsman
- authorizes the office to make rules to implement and carry out the ombudsman's duties and functions
- provides for a sunset review after five years
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 78 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 78 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 1 no, 7 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 18 yes, 8 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 35 yes, 40 noHouse vote, which failed · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 51 yes, 22 no, 2 absentmotion to reconsider · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how
- 43 yes, 28 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Mar 6, 2025Who voted how