Assembly clerk announces recommitment of Senate bill to Codes; Assembly bill restored to third reading

The Assembly convened for brief procedural business on April 7 and the clerk announced a formal change in the handling of two bills: a motion to reconsider the substitution of a Senate bill for an Assembly bill resulted in the Senate bill being recommitted to the Committee on Codes and the Assembly bill being restored to its place on the order of third reading.

The clerk reported the motion as made "by Mister Bronson" and stated the outcome: the Senate bill (spoken in the record as "4470-A") was recommitted to the Committee on Codes and the Assembly bill (spoken as "8451-A") was restored to third reading. The transcript records no floor vote on the matter; the clerk framed the action as procedural and not as a final passage.

Earlier in the session an Assembly member moved to dispense with further reading of the journal for Monday, April 6 and to approve it; the clerk recorded, "Without objection, so ordered." The same member also announced that the main calendar included four new bills and asked Ways and Means and Rules to meet off the floor to produce an eight-item calendar for consideration. The clerk repeated the request and asked committee members to proceed quietly to the Speaker's Conference Room.

The transcript also records a brief personal introduction: an Assembly member introduced his son, Franklin, and the son's girlfriend, Mia, both identified in the record as students (the transcript refers to their school as "MIT, Manhattan Institute of Technology"). The clerk welcomed the guests to the Assembly chamber and extended the privileges of the floor on behalf of the introducer and the presiding officer.

Next steps noted in the session: Ways and Means and Rules were called to meet off the floor to prepare the calendar, and the member who announced calendar and committee scheduling said a conference with colleagues across the aisle may be needed after floor work concludes.