Assembly Rules Committee approves consent agenda, adds ACA 20 (Gabriel) to referrals and approves urgency-clause votes

SACRAMENTO — The California State Assembly Rules Committee met and approved the bulk of its consent agenda while adding an Assembly constitutional amendment to its referral list.

The committee chair announced, “Please note that ACA 20 Gabriel has been added to today's referral list and is being referred to rules committee,” formally placing ACA 20 (Gabriel) on the committee's docket. A member then requested that items 14 and 18 be removed from the consent agenda so they could be voted on individually.

After a motion and second on the remainder of the consent agenda, the secretary conducted a roll-call vote. Multiple members were recorded as voting “aye,” and the chair said, “Motion passes.” The committee then heard a separate motion on the urgency-clause requests for item 14 (recorded in the transcript as “SB 9 42”) and item 18 (recorded in the transcript as “SB 14 18”).

During the vote on the urgency-clause requests the transcript records two members as not voting; the remaining members were recorded as voting in favor. The chair announced that the motion passed and then adjourned the committee. No additional debate, amendments, or public testimony were recorded in the transcript.

The meeting record in the transcript shows standard procedural activity: roll call, a consent-agenda approval, placement of ACA 20 (Gabriel) on the referral list, separate consideration and votes on urgency requests for two items, and adjournment. The committee did not record substantive floor debate on the bills or identify changes to bill language in this transcript.