House Roll Call 26:
Motion to give the bill 'Immediate Effect' (IE), without which it would not go into effect until 2008. Republicans withheld the votes needed to reach the required two-thirds supermajority for IE, because they want the bill tie-barred to SB 184, which would require additional executive branch reporting about potential overspending by state departments. This was the last of several attempts to get IE through a record roll call vote. Following this vote, the House majority leadership 'failed to hear' motions for a record roll call vote on 'Immediate Effect,' and instead passed that on a voice vote (using a 'fast gavel' technique that is not uncommon in the House.) The bill now returns to the Senate, which had originally added the tie-bar to SB 184
