Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 60 - Legislative Services Committee; membership

Page Numbers - 1/ 2

Code Sections - 28-4-1

1. Walker  141st          2. Murphy  18th            3. Lee  94th
4. Irvin  45th


House Comm: Rules      /                Senate Comm: Rules      /               
House Vote: Yeas 167   Nays 0           Senate Vote: Yeas 48  Nays 0            
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               House          Action         Senate                             
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              1/9/95   Read 1st Time         1/23/95                            
              1/10/95  Read 2nd Time         3/13/95                            
              1/12/95  Favorably Reported    3/13/95                            
                       Committee Amend/Sub   Sub                                
              1/13/95  Read 3rd Time         3/15/95                            
              1/13/95  Passed/Adopted        3/15/95                            
              FA       Comm/Floor Amend/Sub  CS                                 
              3/15/95  Amend/Sub Disagreed To                                   
              3/17/95  Insists               3/17/95                            
              3/17/95  Conf Comm Appointed                                      
                       Recedes               3/17/95                            
              3/29/95  Sent to Governor                                         
              4/19/95  Signed by Governor                                       
              424      Act/Veto Number                                          
              4/19/95  Effective Date                                           
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Rules Suspended to Introduce                                                    
                                                                                
Code Sections amended: 28-4-1                                                   


HB 60                                            LC 14 6505S






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Chapter 4 of Title 28 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to legislative services in the
  1- 3  General Assembly, so as to change provisions relating to the
  1- 4  membership and officers of the Legislative Services
  1- 5  Committee; to provide for certain additional members of the
  1- 6  committee; to specify the officers of the committee; to
  1- 7  change provisions relating to a quorum of the committee; to
  1- 8  provide for related matters; to provide an effective date;
  1- 9  to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1-10       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-11  Chapter 4 of Title 28 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1-12  Annotated, relating to legislative services in the General
  1-13  Assembly, is amended by striking Code Section 28-4-1,
  1-14  relating to the Legislative Services Committee, and
  1-15  inserting in its place a new Code section to read as
  1-16  follows:

  1-17    "28-4-1. (Index)

  1-18    (a) There is created the Legislative Services Committee,
  1-19    hereinafter called the committee, to be composed of the
  1-20    Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of
  1-21    the Senate, the chairman chairperson of the Appropriations
  1-22    Committee of the Senate, the chairman chairperson of the
  1-23    Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives,
  1-24    the chairman chairperson of the Judiciary Committee of the
  1-25    Senate, the chairman chairperson of the Judiciary
  1-26    Committee of the House of Representatives, the chairman
  1-27    chairperson of the Banking and Financial Institutions
  1-28    Committee of the Senate, the chairman chairperson of the
  1-29    Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives,
  1-30    the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker Pro
  1-31    Tempore of the House of Representatives, the majority
  1-32    leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the House of
  1-33    Representatives, the minority leader of the Senate, the



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                                                 LC 14 6505S

  2- 1    minority leader of the House of Representatives, the
  2- 2    Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of
  2- 3    Representatives.  The Speaker of the House of
  2- 4    Representatives shall be chairman of the committee, and
  2- 5    the Secretary of the Senate shall be secretary of the
  2- 6    committee chairperson of the committee and the Clerk of
  2- 7    the House of Representatives shall be secretary of the
  2- 8    committee during each odd-numbered year.  The President of
  2- 9    the Senate shall be chairperson of the committee and the
  2-10    Secretary of the Senate shall be secretary of the
  2-11    committee during each even-numbered year.

  2-12    (b) The members of the committee shall receive no
  2-13    additional allowances for service on the committee while
  2-14    the General Assembly is in session; but, for each day
  2-15    spent in the performance of their duties under this
  2-16    chapter between sessions, the members shall receive the
  2-17    allowances authorized by law for legislative members of
  2-18    interim legislative committees.

  2-19    (c) The committee shall meet at least once during each
  2-20    calendar quarter.  Additional meetings may be held upon
  2-21    the call of the chairman chairperson or upon the call of a
  2-22    majority of the members of the committee.  Eight Nine
  2-23    members of the committee shall constitute a quorum and the
  2-24    affirmative vote of a majority of those members present at
  2-25    a meeting of the committee, provided such members present
  2-26    constitute a quorum, shall be necessary to transact
  2-27    business of the committee. The chairman chairperson shall
  2-28    be entitled to vote on all matters requiring a vote of the
  2-29    committee."

                         SECTION 2.

  2-30  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  2-31  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  2-32  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  2-33  repealed.










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