Senate Convenes

You. Testing testing testing. Testing. Senate will come to order madam secretary please call the roll Ballinger Beckham. Bledsoe. Caldwell Chesterfield Clark Davis Dismang Eads Elliott English Flippo flowers Garner Gilmore hammer Hendren Hester Hickey Hill Ingram Irvin Blake Johnson Mark Johnson Leding Pitsch Rapert Rice sample Stubblefield Sturch Sullivan Teague Tucker Wallace. Everyone of action before we have the prayers we leave for Senator Eads. Leave objects and everyone please stand. Talking blue those galleries center board at least temporary Senate Gilmour's goal lead us in prayer Senate no more thank you governor members pray with me heavenly father lord we thank you for your many blessings we thank you for who you are we thank you for being all knowing and all powerful lord we just pray that you would be with this day be with this body after that you grant wisdom but I pray lord that we would be a reflection of you that we would show your love your mercy and I pray that we would do the people's business lord and not be about me or anybody else in this chamber board that we would that we would be behind you and you would hide us behind the cross lord so that only you would be seen and I pray that we would all decrease in order that you might increase to receive the honor and glory just and we pray amen. I pledge allegiance to the. Yeah. Aw. Any items at the desk. We are committee on public health welfare and labor to whom was referred Senate bill seven thirty two by Senator of Johnson recommend a mandated do pass as amended number one. Thank. Counted at and I don't have it appear. Does not Bob Johnson he's retired. I think I think he's got a beverage business out very County. Senator Hickey. Which is to be recognized. Okay members this kind of talk about where we're at the house the house is government going to go home until Monday. Redistricting maps are going to still be being discussed over the weekend what we had to happen this morning as we had one one of the bill that we sent back to public health has been vented debated the public is had all the opportunity need to speak on that and that one bill has been passed out. Now what we can do is that one bill has been passed out we can put that on the calendar and come in tomorrow morning and just debating here that. Senator Bledsoe is also going to go back to public health and they're going to continue to hear all these bills are as many as I can get done this afternoon after we get out of here she's going to make an announcmenet when that's going to be if any other bills come out if any other bills come out at that point in time We could if we came back in on south on Saturday we could calendar those and put those on Sunday. There was some talk you know yesterday that everybody want to make sure that we were going to stay here and do the work and I will tell you all right now that's what I'm willing to do. I don't know that it makes a whole lot of sense because what we could do is just calendar all of these bills. And put them on for Monday morning but if we do that I want to ask although some of you have a long travel so I just as Senator Hester he's human Senator Hendren with probably the the father's two way we can do like nine o'clock you know just to give a of time for them to get here but I would ask that we come back in at nine o'clock on the. Monday morning. So is there any objection to the nine o'clock for Monday morning. With that Mr. After the okay okay I get it thank you so now the question for Senator Hickey or okay okay so nine hundred up Monday morning. Sir John. I need to suspend the rules to have amendment offers seven thirty two engrossed adopt adopted engrossed so. Any objection to spending the rules all those of favour say aye. He will spend the rules to amend his bill. Okay so first on the suspension all those of favour say aye. The. I have a we are spending it The Amendment Amendment one Senate bill seven thirty two. Members is my bill my amendment what it does is. In in that there's personal benefits for incentives and better one second I came here and I don't know if you can. This is not just a routine base legislation is amending something that we've spent a lot of time on Senator there is a it could be considered an original tax by personal benefit then that that would be the incentives of the four hundred dollars two hundred dollars and employers are getting that as a coercion so this this corrects that and and that compensation is not considered coercion also at the very end the American rescue funds or for other federal funds that may become available that that is included. Any questions for the senator. Okay all those of favour say aye. Follows eyes have it members adopted Senator grossing. Any other announcements any other announcements you want to say anything. Senator Bledsoe is recognized to save. Ladies and gentleman as soon as the Senate adjourns we will go to room two seventy two for the rest of the public health committee meeting and we will be there until late this afternoon we have eleven more bills to here thank you so much. Right right right well I take that back I forgot. Some people eat lunch. Seven a let's do eleven thirty that give you enough time see you at eleven thirty. Yes yes. Thank you how many meals were heard. We phone calls floor we started at eight thirty and we just got through because of this we have passed one bill so were others on the agenda are you just would have no no others were they were eleven there's we we've we've only dealt with one one. Okay thank everybody clear okay anybody else was saying anything. J. R. O. nine hundred Monday. So.