Rules committee approves Joint Rule 61 waivers for a slate of Senate bills

The California State Assembly Rules Committee voted to approve requests for Joint Rule 61 waivers for a group of Senate bills and then adjourned, the committee recorded in its meeting transcript.

Chair (speaker S3) opened the substantive business by announcing the waiver requests, reciting the transcript as: "Joint rule 61 waivers for the following senate bills, senate bills 16, 5 77, 8 67, 8 83, 8 87, 8 95, 10 13, 11 48, 12 o 3, 13 87, and 13 94." The transcript shows spacing and punctuation irregularities in some bill numbers; the committee did not state effects or next procedural steps for the listed waivers on the record in the provided transcript.

After the waivers were announced, the chair asked for a motion and the secretary conducted a roll-call vote. The transcript records several members voting "Aye," explicitly naming Pacheco, Garcia and Gonzales as voting in the affirmative; the entries also record at least two members, Lackey and Dixon, as not voting. The meeting record concludes with the chair saying, "Motion passes, rules committee has now adjourned." (chair, speaker S3).

The meeting transcript shows the committee had 11 items on its agenda but does not include further debate, staff presentations, or a description of how the waivers will affect each listed bill. The transcript also contains a small number of irregular transcriptions in the roll-call and member-name lines that are noted in the audit.