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Senate convenes first special session; waives multiple agenda items and refers two bills to finance committee

August 31, 2025 | General Government Operations and Appropriations , Legislative, Guam


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Senate convenes first special session; waives multiple agenda items and refers two bills to finance committee
The Senate convened its first special session and, by unanimous voice or without recorded objection, adopted the session agenda and waived multiple listed agenda items before the body recessed until Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.

Senator Sabrina Salas Matanani, serving as legislative secretary, moved to adopt the agenda “dated 08/30/2025.” The motion was announced and taken without recorded objection. Salas Matanani also moved several waivers during the session: waiving special session agenda items 2 through 6, items 8 and 9, and items 11 and 12; each waiver was put to the chamber and carried after no objection was recorded.

The Senate also agreed, without recorded objection, to append messages from Imagahag and Guahan to the special session journal after a motion to do so was made on the floor.

During floor proceedings, Senator Duenas asked the presiding officer to rule that two bills—referred in the session as Bills No. 1-1s and 2-1s—be sent to a public hearing. The presiding officer (Speaker Blas) announced on the record: "I rule that the matter of Bills No. One-1s and two-1s shall be referred to the Committee of Finance and Government Operations for its public hearing, and we will stand in recess until those matters are taken care of until Monday, 09/29/2025." The transcript records a subsequent motion to overrule the presider and a hand/voice vote on that motion; the transcript does not clearly record the resulting tally or a clear announcing of the motion's final status before the presiding officer declared a recess.

Other routine actions taken without recorded objection included a motion that the listed bills be deemed to have received first reading and a motion to excuse senators not present for the session. When no objections were heard to several procedural motions, the chair announced the motions carried.

The body recessed following the ruling and the motion to overrule; the presiding officer instructed the chamber to stand in recess until the matters scheduled for public hearing were addressed on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025.

Ending: The session record shows only procedural actions and referral instructions; no public hearing on the referred bills was held during the recorded segment of this special session.

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