There were twenty-eight (28) Senators (Barnes, Bowles, Buffkin, Carter, Chichwak, De Nard, Fabricius, Frickey, R. Garland, Hankins, Hinton, Hutcherson, James, Langley, Leung, Ligon, Moye, Perry, Robbins, Salama, Sevits, Small, J. Thornton, Toms, Weston, Wilburn, Wilson Jr., Winfree) voting in the affirmative.

There were eight (8) Senators (Heard, Jones, Ortega, Spivey, Summey, Thorn, S. Thornton, Webb) voting in the negative.

There were six (6) Senators (Adams, Birdsell, Cleary, Lam, Sivakumar, Whitehouse) present but not voting.

There were sixteen (16) Senators (Epps, E. Everett, R. Everett, Feldman, Hoy, Kelly, Kim, Lassiter, Marshall, Rice, Rochelle, Sohail, Stephenson, Strobino, White, Woolard) absent.

A quorum was present.

The Fabricius motion to approve Fabricius motion to instruct Government Operations committee on the Sen., requiring support of a simple majority present and voting for adoption, was adopted by a margin of 28-8.