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Missouri Senate adopts resolutions opening extraordinary session and applying regular-session rules
Summary
The Missouri Senate adopted two unanimous resolutions formally convening an extraordinary session and declaring that the regular-session rules will govern the special session.
The Missouri Senate opened an extraordinary session and adopted two resolutions to notify the House and apply the regular-session rules, the chamber’s presiding officers announced.
Senators voted by voice to adopt Senate Resolution 1, which directs the Senate secretary to inform the House that the Senate is “duly convened in the first extraordinary session” of the 103rd General Assembly, and Senate Resolution 2, which declares that the rules adopted by the 103rd General Assembly’s regular session will govern this extraordinary session.
The measures were offered and moved by the senator identified in the record as the senator from Platt. After brief explanation on the floor, the Senate conducted voice votes; the presiding officer declared “the ayes do have it” for each resolution and announced both resolutions adopted. No roll-call vote was recorded in the transcript.
The resolutions are procedural: SR1 notifies other branches that the Senate is convened for extraordinary business, and SR2 sets the procedural rules that will govern debate and consideration during the special session. The resolutions themselves do not appropriate funds or change policy; they establish the Senate’s authority and procedures for the extraordinary session.
No additional debate on the resolutions appears in the transcript. The Senate then proceeded to the introduction of bills and other business for the special session.
