Montana Senate adjourns joint session until Jan. 14

The Montana Senate approved a motion to adjourn a joint session and set the next meeting for 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, identified in the proceedings as the seventh legislative day.

The adjournment motion was made on the floor by the chamber—s majority leader and carried by voice vote. The transcript records the chamber—s call for a voice vote — “All those in favor, say aye” — followed by “And the ayes have it.” No roll-call or recorded vote tally appears in the transcript.

The record opened with the presiding officer noting a quorum and moving to business item No. 9 before the motion to adjourn. The brief exchange in the transcript shows the chamber moving directly from procedural order to adjourning the joint session; the motion was seconded or supported as indicated by the presiding language, but no second was named in the transcript.

The transcript does not record additional debate, statements of intent for items to be taken up at the reconvened session, or any formal votes on legislation during the excerpt provided. The scheduling action appears to be purely procedural: setting the time and date to reconvene the joint session.

The chamber—s remarks in the provided transcript do not identify a roll-call tally or individual votes beyond the voice vote, and they include inconsistent spellings of the majority leader—s name in the raw transcript. The article therefore refers to that individual only by title, "the majority leader," in order to avoid potential misidentification.