Maine Senate rejects motion to send joint order on committee-report rules to Joint Rules Committee; final passage not recorded in transcript

The Maine Senate debated a joint order addressing when legislative committees may file “ought not to pass” reports and rejected a motion to send the matter to the Joint Rules Committee, a roll call showed.

Senators voted 15–20 against referring the joint order to the Joint Rules Committee in nonconcurrence, and the chair noted that, under Joint Rule 102, the joint order requires a two‑thirds vote for final passage. The transcript does not record the final disposition of the joint order after the chair opened the vote for adoption.

The joint order before the Senate would allow committees to issue “ought not to pass” reports after committee votes in some circumstances; it was listed in the Legislature’s unfinished business as “Joint order allowing reports of ought not to pass to be made after the committee…