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Senate Education Committee approves short executive-action pause to accept proxies
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted by voice to briefly enter executive action to accept legislative proxies to be held by the vice chair and assigned to legislators' designees.
The Senate Education Committee momentarily entered executive action and approved accepting proxies to be held by the vice chair and appointed to legislators' designees.
The motion was made by Senator Manzella and carried by voice vote, with the chair declaring, "Ayes have it." The committee recorded that a quorum was present before the motion.
The motion's purpose, as read on the floor, was "to momentarily enter into executive action for the purpose of accepting proxies, to be held by the vice chairman and appointed to the legislators of the legislators' choosing," and it passed by voice vote. The committee did not take a roll call vote on the proxies during the recorded motion beyond the voice vote.
The committee moved on to the day's bill hearings after the voice vote. No additional conditions or limitations on the accepted proxies were stated during the motion.
The committee chair then continued into the scheduled bill hearings for the session.
