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Senate sends multiple emergency measures to governor after unanimous votes
Summary
The Senate treated several bills as emergency measures and passed them to be enacted, recording unanimous (32-0) votes on multiple items including measures on extreme risk protection orders, debt-limit changes for water districts, and school-district dissolution; the measures will be signed and sent to the governor.
During the session the Senate passed a series of bills designated as emergency measures and ordered them to be enacted; several were approved by unanimous recorded votes and will be presented to the governor for approval.
Items treated as "truly and strictly engrossed" included an act to amend extreme risk protection order procedures, actions to increase debt limits for local water districts, the dissolution of a community school district, authority to use variable message signs on certain vehicles, and other administrative and public-safety items. For several of these the chair announced recorded tallies of 32 senators in the affirmative and 0 in the negative.
The measures were described on the floor as having had their required readings in both chambers and as being ready for final enactment; the chair advised that the bills would be signed by the president and presented by the secretary to the governor for approval.
Because these were processed as emergency measures under the Constitution, the chair noted that a two-thirds affirmative vote of the elected membership was required for enactment; the recorded votes met that threshold for the items announced as passed.
