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Senate adopts joint resolution setting weekend adjournment; reads resolution on short-form bills
Summary
The Senate adopted a joint resolution scheduling a weekend adjournment Jan. 24, 2025, placed a Senate resolution on temporary short-form bill rules on the calendar for notice, and approved procedural motions including journalizing remarks and an adjournment until Jan. 22.
The Senate adopted a joint resolution setting a weekend adjournment on Jan. 24, 2025, and voted to meet again no later than Jan. 28, 2025. The chamber also heard a reading of a Senate resolution on a temporary rule for short-form bills and placed that resolution on the calendar for notice.
The joint resolution — JRS 8 — was read to the chamber and the presiding officer called the question. After a voice vote, the presiding officer said, “The ayes have it,” and the resolution was adopted on the Senate’s part. The reading of SR 6, described on the floor as a “Senate resolution relating to a temporary rule for short form bills,” was handled under Rule 34 and will be placed on the calendar for notice; no final floor vote on SR 6 was recorded in the transcript.
Reverend Patrick Foreman of Saint Augustine Church opened the session with a devotional prayer asking for “God’s blessings upon all of you” and for the senators’ work to be aided by “collective wisdom and experience.” The presiding officer led the pledge of allegiance and called for a moment of silence for a border patrol agent who died the previous day; a senator from Essex identified the agent as David Malin.
On procedural motions, a motion by the senator from Chittenden to journalize the senator from Essex’s remarks was adopted by voice vote. Later, the senator from Chittenden moved that the Senate stand adjourned until 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22; the motion was adopted by voice vote and the chamber adjourned until that time.
Votes at a glance: • JRS 8, “A joint resolution relating to weekend adjournment on January 24, 2025” — read to chamber; voice vote; outcome: adopted (presiding officer announced “The ayes have it”). • SR 6, “Senate resolution relating to a temporary rule for short form bills” — read under Rule 34; outcome: placed on the calendar for notice (no final floor vote recorded in transcript). • Motion to journalize remarks of the senator from Essex — moved by the senator from Chittenden; voice vote; outcome: adopted. • Motion to adjourn until 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 — moved by the senator from Chittenden; voice vote; outcome: adopted.
The actions taken are procedural and affect the Senate’s schedule and internal rules process; no substantive policy measures or committee referrals were recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The transcript records voice votes rather than roll-call tallies, and no movers or seconders were recorded for the joint resolution adoption.
