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Committee debate turns contentious after motion to take up Senate Bill 9 as special order
Summary
A motion to bring Senate Bill 9 before the House Children and Youth Committee as a special order prompted the chair to invoke agenda precedent, an appeal of the chair's ruling, a contested roll call and multiple points of order; members interjected heated remarks during the procedural exchange.
Late in the meeting a member moved to bring Senate Bill 9 (printer's number 117) immediately before the committee as a special order of business for a committee vote.
The chair noted longstanding precedent that the majority chair sets the committee agenda and said SB9 was not on the agenda. Chair Klunk appealed the ruling of the chair, and the appeal was put to a vote. Roll-call procedures and multiple points of order followed; the transcript records procedural interruptions, members asking for the roll to be restarted, and shouted objections to how the chair was conducting the vote.
Several members raised formal points of order and accused other members of blocking items previously scheduled for the committee. One participant used heated language, saying, "You people are cowards," while others urged adherence to the committee's rules and schedule. The transcript records a contentious sequence of roll calls, challenges to the chair's rulings, and no clear final disposition of SB9 on the record captured here.
The motion to take up SB9 and the appeal produced visible division in the committee and interrupted the otherwise ceremonial business of reporting resolutions. The transcript does not record the name of the member who moved the SB9 motion (motion-maker not identified by name in the captured segments) or a definitive final vote result on SB9 in this excerpt.
