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SB0008Introduced in the Senate

Library budgets.

EngrossedHouse Ways and Means

Introduced by Gary Byrne, District 47

What does this bill do?

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Official description

Library budgets. Amends the percentage increase in a public library's proposed budget that determines whether the public library's proposed budget is subject to binding review by the applicable county, city, or town, fiscal body.

Where it stands

First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means

January 28, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

SenateStage: Senate - Third reading · January 26, 2026

31

Yes

13

No

5

Absent or Not Voting

49 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Dan Dernulc1Yes
Lonnie Randolph2Absent
Mark Spencer3No
Rodney Pol4No
Ed Charbonneau5Yes
Rick Niemeyer6No
Brian Buchanan7Yes
Mike Bohacek8No
Ryan Mishler9Yes
David Niezgodski10No

Bill history

  1. Authored by Senator Byrne

  2. First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy

  3. Committee report: amend do pass, adopted

  4. Second reading: ordered engrossed

  5. Third reading: passed; Roll Call 68: yeas 31, nays 13

  6. House sponsor: Representative Prescott

  7. Senator Garten added as second author

  8. Senator Mishler added as third author

  9. Senator Baldwin added as coauthor

  10. Senator Young M added as coauthor

  11. Senator Schmitt added as coauthor

  12. Senators Johnson T, Buchanan added as coauthors

  13. Referred to the House

  14. First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means

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