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Maine Senate passes routine orders, schedules joint convention and tables select items
Summary
The Senate passed a series of administrative and joint orders, instructed messengers to notify the House and governor, scheduled a joint convention for December 4, 2024 at 3 p.m., and tabled select items for a later legislative day.
During the organizational session the Senate considered and passed multiple routine orders and joint orders contained in supplements distributed to members.
The body agreed to send messages to the governor and the House informing them of the Senate’s actions and appointed messengers to deliver those communications. One joint order proposes a convention of the two branches in the Hall of the House at 3:00 p.m. on 12/04/2024 for the purpose of electing statewide constitutional officers; the order was presented and moved for passage.
Several items were briefly debated and a few were tabled for a later legislative day at the request of senators who asked to preserve prior work on rules modernization and other internal processes. Reports of committees and bills for second or final reading were not presented at this session; the chair announced there were none.
Senator Talbot Ross announced that the Legislative Memorial Scholarship Association is reconvening and scheduled an initial meeting on December 18 via Zoom. The chair adjourned the session for a luncheon and reminded members to return to the chamber at 2:45 p.m. for the joint convention.
Where the transcript records votes it does so procedurally with motions and the phrase “It’s a vote,” but explicit vote tallies were not included in the available text.
