Iowa House swiftly adopts three concurrent resolutions to set joint conventions

The Iowa House of Representatives on opening day used unanimous-consent procedures to adopt three House Concurrent Resolutions that schedule joint conventions with the Senate.

Representative Kaufman asked for immediate consideration of House Concurrent Resolution 101, by Grassley and B. Mayer, providing for a joint convention for the condition of the state address; with no objections the resolution was moved and adopted by voice vote. The House followed the same process to adopt House Concurrent Resolution 102 (providing for a joint convention for the condition of the judiciary) and House Concurrent Resolution 103 (providing for a joint convention for the condition of the National Guard). After adopting the three resolutions, the chair ordered them messaged to the Senate.

The procedural votes were by voice and recorded in the House as "the ayes do have it"; no roll-call tallies were offered in the record. Representative Kaufman asked unanimous consent to move and immediately message the resolutions; the requests drew no objections and the clerk read the resolutions into the record before adoption.

Next procedural steps are that the resolutions be received by the Senate and scheduling of the joint conventions will follow interchamber coordination. The House adjourned later in the day and messaged the adopted resolutions to the Senate the same morning.

Provenance: The clerk read House Concurrent Resolutions 101 (SEG 153–SEG 156) and 102 (SEG 177–SEG 179); motions and adoptions are recorded at SEG 159–SEG 168 (HCR 101), SEG 180–SEG 190 (HCR 102), and SEG 201–SEG 210 (HCR 103). The resolutions were messaged to the Senate at SEG 211–SEG 220.