Senate advances consent calendar after several bills removed for separate consideration

The secretary read a long list of consent-calendar measures for second-day consideration. Multiple authors asked to remove specific items from the consent calendar for the purpose of amendment or separate consideration; the desk noted those requests. After handling removals and reconsideration motions—Senator Ashby successfully asked that file item 250 (AB 2779) be reconsidered and removed—the presiding officer applied the recorded roll-call tally to the remaining items on the consent calendar, announcing "Ayes 37, No 0" for the set of unremoved items.

Senators used the motion process to ensure measures receiving additional scrutiny were taken off the consent calendar. The floor also recorded individual senators’ requests to move items to the inactive file or to remove them for amendment, and the desk noted each request as part of the permanent record.