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Votes at a glance: Senate moves calendar items and adopts three memorial resolutions
Summary
The Oregon Senate voted on procedural calendar motions and adopted three memorial resolutions during the March 28 floor session. Major actions: moving HCR 2 to April 2, suspending the section-by-section reading requirement for today's third-reading calendar, and adopting SCR 10, HCR 9 and HCR 16.
At the March 28 floor session the Oregon Senate recorded several formal actions, including calendar motions and final adoption of concurrent and joint resolutions in memoriam.
Key outcomes
- HCR 2: Senator Grama moved to remove House Concurrent Resolution 2 from today's calendar and place it on the Wednesday, April 2 calendar as a special order of business. The motion carried by voice vote; the clerk recorded the motion as carried.
- Suspension of article 4 section 19 reading requirement: Senator Bonham moved that, in compliance with Article 4, Section 19 of the Oregon Constitution and notwithstanding Senate rules, the requirement that bills be read section by section on final passage be suspended for today's third reading calendar. The motion was put to a recorded roll call; the Clerk called names and the result was recorded with 27 ayes and named nays; the motion was carried. (Transcript records: named nays included President Wagner and Senators Linthicum, Robinson and Thatcher; the Clerk declared the motion carried.)
- Unanimous consent to allow guests: Senator Grama requested unanimous consent to allow guests on the Senate floor during the third reading of HCR 16; no objection was recorded and the request was granted.
Adopted resolutions (final votes)
- Senate Concurrent Resolution 10 (SCR 10), in memoriam of Senate President Peter Michael Coleman Courtney: Adopted on third reading by recorded roll call. The Clerk's roll call registered 30 ayes; SCR 10 was declared adopted.
- House Concurrent Resolution 9 (HCR 9), in memoriam of former Secretary of State Dennis Michael Richardson: Adopted on third reading by recorded roll call. The Clerk's roll call registered 30 ayes; HCR 9 was declared passed.
- House Concurrent Resolution 16 (HCR 16), honoring Specialist Four Paul Jeffrey Cochran for his service: Adopted on third reading by recorded roll call. The Clerk's roll call registered 30 ayes; HCR 16 was declared passed.
Procedural notes
The clerk announced a number of additional measures (including Senate bills and House bills) that were read for referral and were carried over to the March 31 calendar. Several second- and third-reading calendars were carried over without objection to March 31.
No fiscal or policy actions that bind state agencies were recorded in the session's final actions beyond the memorials and procedural motions noted above.
