Missouri Senate approves journal, advances committee reports and gubernatorial appointments, and adjourns

The Missouri Senate convened in a routine floor session and, after an opening prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum and moved through procedural business.

Senator from Platt moved that further reading of the journal be dispensed with and that the journal be approved “as though having been fully read.” The motion was adopted by voice vote after the presiding officer put the question and announced that the ayes had it.

The committee on rules, joint rules, resolutions, and ethics reported on Senate Concurrent Resolution 21, recommending that a Senate committee substitute be attached and that the measure "do pass," the secretary read. The report concluded with the phrase, “Respectfully submitted, senator Lukmeier, chair.”

Senator Shelby forwarded a committee report on gubernatorial appointments and asked that the reading of the distributed list of appointments be waived; the waiver was granted. Shelby then moved that the committee report be adopted and that the Senate give its advice and consent to the appointments. The motion carried on a voice vote; the presiding officer announced that the committee report was adopted. The transcript records that a list of appointments was distributed but provides no details of the individual nominees in the floor record.

A committee report from the committee on judiciary and civil and criminal jurisprudence recommending action on what the transcript terms "Senate Bill 13 93" was sent forward with a recommendation that the bill do pass, and the presiding officer referred House Bill 2125 to the Committee on Fiscal Oversight.

With no further business, the senator identified as "Senator from the twentieth" moved that the Senate stand adjourned until Monday, April 13 at 4 p.m. The motion was approved by voice vote and the presiding officer adjourned the body.

Procedural note: the transcript records voice votes and presiding announcements of "ayes," but it does not include roll-call tallies or the text of the gubernatorial appointment list; those materials were described as distributed or waived from reading and are not specified in the provided transcript.