SB653 Enabling counties to change the dates of their biennial budgets.

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Enabling counties to change the dates of their biennial budgets.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

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Your Wallet

No direct financial impact; administrative scheduling change.

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Your Community

Modest improvement to county budget process that could improve financial planning.

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Your Freedom

Gives counties more local control over their budgeting process.

Status

Sen. Gray Moved Nonconcur with the House Amendment, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 05/21/2026; Senate Journal 13

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Timothy Lang (R)

The Short Version

Gives counties flexibility to change the dates of their biennial budget cycles. A procedural improvement for county government financial planning.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

▲ County governments seeking scheduling flexibility
▲ County budget administrators

Who Pays the Price

▼ Minimal; purely procedural change

Roll Call Detail (2 votes)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 2 recorded votes on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans supported it ( 166 for , 2 against ) , and Democrats opposed it ( 1 for , 144 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Adopt Amendment 2026-05-14

Passed

YES = Adopt this amendment. NO = Reject this amendment.

163R + 1D

Voted to Adopt Amendment (164)

2R + 143D

Voted Against Amendment (145)

Absent

Not voting

Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (164)

Republicans (163)

Democrats (1)

Dale Girard

Voted Nay (145)

Republicans (2)

Democrats (143)

Absent (51)

Alicia Gregg (D) , Arnold Davis (R) , Barbara Comtois (R) , Beth Richards (D) , Bill Bolton (D) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , David Lundgren (R) , David Preece (D) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Donald McFarlane (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Heather Baldwin (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , Jean Jeudy (D) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , Jim Fedolfi (R) , Jim Kofalt (R) , Jodi Nelson (R) , John Suiter (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Joseph Barton (R) , Joseph Guthrie (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Karel Crawford (R) , Katelyn Kuttab (R) , Kevin Verville (R) , Kimberly Rice (R) , Kristina Schultz (D) , Linda Haskins (D) , Loren Selig (D) , Lorie Ball (R) , Marjorie Smith (D) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Mike Bordes (R) , Mike Ouellet (R) , Myles England (D) , Paul Terry (R) , Peter Varney (R) , Raymond Peeples (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Robley Hall (R) , Sanjeev Manohar (D) , Sayra Devito (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Steven Bogert (R) , Suzanne Vail (D) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tom Dolan (R) , Toni Weinstein (D) , Valerie McDonnell (R)

Did not vote (33)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Amy Malone (D) , Billie Butler (D) , Bryan Morse (R) , Buzz Scherr (D) , Cathryn Harvey (D) , Christopher Herbert (D) , Dan Bergeron (D) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Ernesto Gonzalez (R) , Gary Gilmore (D) , Jack Flanagan (R) , James MacKay (D) , James Roesener (D) , James Tierney (R) , Jim Creighton (R) , John Stone (D) , Jonah Wheeler (D) , Keith Ammon (R) , Kevin Scully (R) , Mark Paige (D) , Michael Granger (R) , Robert Harb (R) , Russell Dumais (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Steven Smith (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Travis Corcoran (R) , Vicki Wilson (R)

Ought to Pass with Amendment 2026-05-14

Passed

YES = Pass the bill with the attached amendment. NO = Reject the bill (as amended).

166R + 1D

Voted to Pass (167)

2R + 144D

Voted Against (146)

Absent

Not voting

Show all 393 individual votes

Voted Yea (167)

Republicans (166)

Democrats (1)

Dale Girard

Voted Nay (146)

Republicans (2)

Democrats (144)

Absent (51)

Did not vote (29)

Aidan Ankarberg (I) , Amy Malone (D) , Billie Butler (D) , Bryan Morse (R) , Buzz Scherr (D) , Cathryn Harvey (D) , Christopher Herbert (D) , Dan Bergeron (D) , Douglas Trottier (R) , Efstathia Booras (D) , Ernesto Gonzalez (R) , Gary Gilmore (D) , Jack Flanagan (R) , James MacKay (D) , James Roesener (D) , Jim Creighton (R) , John Stone (D) , Kevin Scully (R) , Mark Paige (D) , Michael Granger (R) , Robert Harb (R) , Russell Dumais (R) , Sheri Minor (R) , Sherman Packard (R) , Steven Smith (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Tim Mannion (R) , Travis Corcoran (R)

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