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Committee adds emergency clause to Senate Bill 2051, then votes due pass as amended
Summary
Senators voted to add an emergency clause to Senate Bill 2051 and then recommended the amended bill for passage. The committee recorded roll-call votes for the amendment and the final due-pass recommendation.
The Senate Industry and Business Committee voted to amend Senate Bill 2051 by adding an emergency clause and then approved the bill as amended.
Senator Klein moved to add the emergency clause; Senator Kessel seconded the motion. The committee clerk conducted a roll-call on the verbal amendment; the chair announced that the amendment passed. Following the amendment vote, a motion for a due-pass recommendation on SB 2051 as amended was made and seconded. The clerk called the roll again and the committee reported that Senate Bill 2051 had passed the committee with a due-pass recommendation. The chair indicated Senator Klein would carry the bill to the floor.
Committee discussion leading up to the amendment included procedural notes on how amended bills would be processed and that a successful two-thirds floor vote would make the emergency clause effective upon the governor’s signature. One senator said adding the clause would make the law effective immediately if approved by the required legislative threshold and the governor.
No technical policy debate about the underlying content of SB 2051 is recorded in the hearing excerpt; the recorded action before the committee concerned the procedural amendment and the committee’s endorsement of the bill as amended.
