Senate Journal: Page 1518: Friday, April 28, 1995

         Senator Szymoniak called up for consideration Senate File 120, a
    bill for  an act requiring that prison inmates demonstrate functional
    literacy competence at or above the sixth grade level or obtain a
    general equivalency diploma, conditioning receipt of certain privileges
    on participation in education programs, and permitting the use of
    educational competence as a precondition to the granting of parole or
    work release, and providing exceptions, amended by the House, and moved
    that the Senate concur in House amendment S-3637 filed April 28, 1995.

         The motion prevailed by a voice vote and the Senate concurred in
    the House amendment.

         Senator Szymoniak moved that the bill as amended by the House and
    concurred in by the Senate, be read the last time now and placed upon
    its passage, which motion prevailed by a voice vote and the bill was
    read the last time.

         On the question Shall the bill pass? (S.F. 120) the vote was:

    Ayes, 47:


         Bartz         Bennett       Bisignano     Black
         Boettger      Borlaug       Boswell       Connolly
         Dearden       Deluhery      Douglas       Drake
         Dvorsky       Fink          Flynn         Fraise
         Freeman       Gettings      Giannetto     Gronstal
         Halvorson     Hammond       Hansen        Hedge
         Horn          Husak         Iverson       Jensen
         Judge         Kibbie        Kramer        Lind
         Lundby        Maddox        McKean        McLaren
         Murphy        Neuhauser     Palmer        Priebe
         Redfern       Rensink       Rittmer       Sorensen
         Szymoniak     Tinsman       Zieman

    Nays, 1:

         Rife

    Absent or not voting, 2:

         Banks         Vilsack

         The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to
    have passed the Senate and the title as amended was agreed to.

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