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Senate adopts April 8 agenda, waives and delays multiple items and resolves into Committee of the Whole for state funeral
Summary
In a routine session on April 8, 2025, senators adopted the legislative-session agenda dated April 8, delayed items 2–5, waived several agenda items, excused absent senators, appended Resolution 36-38 LS to the session journal and resolved into the Committee of the Whole to conduct a state funeral for the late Mark Forbes.
The legislative body meeting under the General Government Operations and Appropriations taxonomy on April 8, 2025, adopted the session agenda dated April 8, 2025, and approved a series of procedural motions to delay or waive multiple agenda items before resolving into the Committee of the Whole for a state funeral service for the late Hon. Mark Forbes.
Most motions were made by members recognized as majority leader or other presiding members and were carried without objection. Senators delayed legislative-session agenda items 2 through 5; waived item 6; waived items 8 through 13; excused senators not present for the session; and waived items 15 through 19. The assembly also voted to append Resolution 36-38 LS to the session journal. Finally, the body resolved into the Committee of the Whole to conduct a formal state funeral service for former senator and speaker Mark Forbes. The session was recessed and scheduled to begin promptly at 10 a.m.
Madam Clerk conducted roll call for the session and a quorum was announced. Senators recorded as present in the roll call included Speaker Blas and senators listed in the transcript as Barnett, Borja, Cowell, Duenas, Este Guill, Guma Taota, Luhan, Munoz Barnes, Parkinson, Perez, Solis Matanani, Saint Augustine, Tydegui and Terlahi. The transcript shows each of the procedural motions was carried by the formality recorded as "hearing and seeing no objection," indicating no recorded roll-call opposition in the provided excerpt.
The appended Resolution 36-38 LS was added to the day's session journal by motion and carried without objection; the transcript does not specify the resolution's subject or full text. The motion to resolve into the Committee of the Whole stated the purpose as conducting "the state funeral service for the late honorable Mark Forbes, former senator and speaker," and directed the body to conduct it in formal manner.
No substantive policy debate or committee hearings on programmatic or budgetary matters are recorded in the provided transcript excerpt. The actions summarized here are procedural housekeeping and the formal transition to the Committee of the Whole for the funeral service.
