Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Senate File 41 topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Senate fails to pass Senate File 41 after roll-call correction following reconsideration
Summary
After a successful motion to reconsider, the Senate held a third-reading roll call on Senate File 41 and, following a clerical correction to the tally, determined the bill failed to receive the majority of elected members.
The Wyoming Senate voted on a motion to reconsider the third-reading vote on Senate File 41 and then held a third-reading roll call on the bill. The motion to reconsider carried; the subsequent third-reading tally did not reach the 16 votes needed to pass and the presiding officer declared the bill failed.
Senator Brian Driscoll moved immediate reconsideration of the third-reading vote on Senate File 41 after the initial third-reading result. The clerk announced the reconsideration vote as 16 ayes, 13 noes and 2 excused, and the motion to reconsider was declared carried.
The Senate then completed a third-reading roll call on Senate File 41. The chief clerk called members and an initial announcement of the tally led to confusion on the floor. The presiding officer later said a recording error had been found: “An excused member was erroneously counted as an I vote when the vote count was originally announced,” and declared that because the corrected roll call produced only 15 ayes — short of the 16 votes required by law — Senate File 41 had failed the Senate.
The corrected final tally announced on the floor was 15 ayes, 13 noes, 2 excused and 1 conflict, and the presiding officer made the result official. No further amendments or referrals for Senate File 41 were recorded that would keep the bill alive in this chamber.
The roll-call confusion drew several requests for clarification on procedure during the floor session, including questions about how to handle misrecorded votes and the threshold required for passage on reconsideration versus a full third-reading vote.
Votes and formal actions recorded during the sequence were limited to the reconsideration motion and the third-reading roll call. The clerk and presiding officer corrected the record on the floor before announcing the final outcome of the bill.
