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Senate reads dozens of bills for first time; referred to Rules Committee
Summary
At the session opening the clerk read the short titles for many Senate bills (SB 5–93 and several resolutions) for first reading; the bills were formally referred to the Rules Committee for assignment.
On Jan. 18, 1999, the Senate clerk read the short titles of a substantial slate of proposed measures for first reading and indicated they would be referred to the Rules Committee. The list included measures on a range of topics: marriage minimum age (SB 5), seat-belt amendments (SB 6), youth parole authority (SB 7), research tax-credit changes (SB 8), long-term care amendments (SB 9), public-assistance eligibility (SB 10), graduated driver licensing (SB 12), and numerous measures on education, taxation, public safety, and administrative matters.
The clerk announced that the bills read for the first time would be referred to the Rules Committee and therefore would proceed through the usual committee-referral process for consideration, amendment, or scheduling. President Beatty and other senators noted the procedural step and scheduled the Rules Committee to meet at 1:45 p.m. that day to begin the assignment and scheduling work for the session.
No final votes on the substantive bills were taken at the reading; the announcements constituted the formal first reading required to place items on the calendar and begin committee referral. The Senate also noted that senators may request the reading of long titles for any House or Senate measure during the session, per the adopted suspension-of-reading motion.
