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Assembly votes: bid to bypass committee on AB 12 fails; several ceremonial resolutions adopted
Summary
On Feb. 11, 2025, the Assembly rejected a motion to suspend constitutional procedure to take up AB 12 on the floor and adopted multiple ceremonial resolutions including ACR 19, ACR 27, ACR 29, ACR 33 and a consent calendar item.
The California State Assembly on Feb. 11, 2025, rejected a motion to suspend the Constitution and Assembly rules that would have allowed AB 12 to be taken up on the floor without the usual committee hearings, and adopted a slate of ceremonial resolutions and a consent calendar item.
Motion to suspend the Constitution on AB 12: Assemblymember Gonzalez moved to suspend the Constitution and Assembly rules to take up AB 12 without committee reference; Assemblymember De Maio seconded the motion. The clerk recorded the roll: 16 Aye, 37 Noes. The motion failed. The clerk reported "Ayes 16, Noes 37. The motion to suspend the Constitution fails." The Assembly did not consider AB 12 on the floor at that time.
Resolutions adopted (votes at a glance): - ACR 19 (Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, file item 1): Adopted. Clerk reported 60 coauthors; adopted by voice vote. - ACR 29 (Engineers Week, file item 2): Adopted. Clerk reported 65 coauthors; adopted by voice vote. - ACR 27 (Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, file item 3): Adopted. Clerk reported 68 coauthors; adopted by voice vote. - ACR 33 (Rare Disease Day, file item 6): Adopted. Clerk reported 68 coauthors; adopted by voice vote. - Consent calendar (second day consent calendar, including Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 relative to Substance Use Disorder Treatment Month): Adopted; clerk reported "Aye, 65. Noes 0." The consent calendar was adopted.
Procedural notes: Many resolutions were introduced and carried with broad coauthorship and were adopted by voice vote after brief floor statements. Coauthor counts and adoption methods are recorded in the Assembly journal as read on the floor. Where roll-call tallies were reported (the failed suspension motion and the consent calendar tally), those tallies are noted above.
Actions recorded on the floor were primarily procedural and ceremonial; none of the adopted measures recorded in these actions created a direct statutory or budgetary change on their face. The failed suspension motion was a procedural vote that required a supermajority to succeed; its failure kept AB 12 in committee process rather than being taken up on the floor.
