First, I will start off by explaining the basic motion instructions considering that many people outside of the House White may not know the procedures.
When you begin an Agenda Item, you start by adding a Motion. Then that motion goes to 2nd and it will go to the debate. The debate is simply a discussion between two senates. Chances are, there would one senate from each party who would converse a debate about that particular agenda item that we are voting upon. After the Debate is over and done with, that amend will go to a vote. If the Amend doesn't get passed to the vote, then we would need to go back to the Debate. The Speaker of the House will ask if the senates are all ready for a vote. There should be an unanimous vote in order to transition to the vote. Just so you know, moving bills to a committee always have to be unanimous.
After the vote has passed, then we move on to the next item of the day. In a way, the instructions do sound complicated mainly because there are many different procedures that goes on throughout one Agenda Item. Such as, if you announce that you want to close the debate, then there would need to be a 2/3 vote from the Senate Chamber in order to completely close the debate. There will perhaps be a time where all of the Democrats would rise and majority of the Republicans would sit down. That would count as 2/2 of the Senate. Not exactly what we need.
Here's what happened on Wednesday (11/3):
On Wednesday, we particularly went through our previous agenda items that, of course, will have priority over new agenda items.
We were able to complete six Agenda Items.
- First Order of the Day: Move Artificial Intelligence to the Government Affairs Committee. We moved it to a debate, vote and after we put a motion to move the Artificial Intelligence Bill #2363 to the committee of Government Affairs, it passed.
- Second Order of the Day: To Amend the process to Seconding. After we put the item to a debate, amendment and to a vote, the speaker of the house said that the motion did not pass mainly because it was not unanimous
- Third Order of the Day: To move the motion to move the topic to committee of commerce of science and transportation. There was a senator that seconded that motion. There is no debate on this topic. When we moved on to Amendments, there are no Amendments. After we moved on to a vote, the motion did not pass.
- Fourth Order of the Day: Motion on Lowering college costs. It was originally moved to the Banking,Housing and Urban Affairs Committee but it is going to be moved to a different committee. After moving to the debate, we cleared the motion the topic of lowering college costs from banking, housing and urban affairs to the committee of finance. After moving onto another debate, there were senates that mentioned that it was relevant to the banking, housing and urban affairs. So, we decided to have it stay in the committee that it is right now. A Republican in our chamber mentioned that since banking is already by the governor it should be saved for the committee of Finance. Motion to close the debate has passed and there are no objections on moving the lowering college costs to finance.
- Fifth Order of the Day: To Move the Issue of Agriculture to the Finance Committee. Moved to a closed debate passed. I'm also assuming that the motion to move the Issue of Agriculture to the Finance Committee has passed.
- Sixth and Final Order of the Day: We decided to end by moving the topic of Children's of Public schools to the Committee of Agriculture. After putting the topic to a debate, vote, and putting a motion to the committee of agriculture, the motion has been passed and is moved to that committee.
There will be more information coming to you shortly.
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