Rules Committee votes to ‘pass by’ a block of bills indefinitely

A member of the Rules Committee moved to “pass by” indefinitely a block of measures read aloud during the session and the motion was carried, according to the meeting transcript.

The transcript records a committee statement that a quorum was present before a speaker said, “Mister Speaker, we have a single block in front of us, I believe, with SB 7 7 9, SB 11 o 1, SB 1 2 2 2, SJ 2 5 5, SJ 2 58, SJ 2 66, 2. I move to pass by those bills indefinitely.” The clerk was then asked to close the roll and the record notes, “The motion is carried 12 to be via the following legislation. Committee shall rise.” The transcript’s numeric readings and some bill identifiers are garbled and not fully specified in the record.

The committee’s exchange in the transcript is brief: the meeting opened, a quorum was announced, the motion to pass by the listed measures was moved and seconded, the clerk closed the roll, and the chair declared the motion carried and the committee adjourned. The transcript does not provide clear, individual vote tallies by member or the full, standard bill identifiers for the measures read aloud.

The action recorded is a procedural motion to remove a set of items from the committee’s active consideration by moving to pass them by indefinitely. The transcript does not include any substantive debate on the measures themselves, nor does it specify who seconded the motion or the exact yes/no vote totals beyond the fragmentary phrasing recorded.

Because the transcript fragments the bill numbers and the vote language, this article lists the measures exactly as they were read on the record rather than attempting to normalize numbers that are not clearly stated in the transcript.