| HR 749 - Rules of House; amend |
First Reader Summary
A RESOLUTION to amend the Rules of the House so as to create an
uncontested resolutions calendar for resolutions naming things
and creating study committees; and for other purposes.
HR 749 LC 14 7353
A RESOLUTION
1- 1 To amend the Rules of the House so as to create an
1- 2 uncontested resolutions calendar for resolutions naming
1- 3 things and creating study committees; to provide for related
1- 4 matters; and for other purposes.
1- 5 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the
1- 6 Rules of the House are amended by striking paragraph (17) of
1- 7 Rule 27 and inserting in its place a new paragraph to
1- 8 describe an item in the order of business and to read as
1- 9 follows:
1-10 "(17)(A) When applicable, third reading of resolutions
1-11 on the uncontested resolutions calendar; and
1-12 (B) Other bills Bills and resolutions for third
1-13 reading."
1-14 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Rules of the House are
1-15 further amended by striking Rule 29 and inserting in its
1-16 place a new rule to read as follows:
1-17 "Rule 29. (a) The Committee on Rules shall arrange and fix
1-18 the calendar for each day's business for the last 25 days
1-19 of each regular session of the General Assembly. The
1-20 rules calendar for each such day shall be set by the
1-21 Committee on Rules on the legislative day prior to the
1-22 legislative day on which the calendar shall be before the
1-23 House. Copies of such calendar shall be printed and made
1-24 available to the members of the House as quickly as is
1-25 practicable following the setting of the calendar. Such
1-26 calendar shall be a standing and continuing special order
1-27 during such period. There shall be no debate on the
1-28 adoption of the calendar of the Committee on Rules. The
1-29 provisions of this rule concerning the time for setting of
1-30 the calendar may be waived by majority vote of the members
1-31 elected to the House; and in that event the Committee on
1-32 Rules may meet at any time to set a rules calendar or
1-33 supplemental rules calendar.
1-34 (b) There shall be a separate section at the beginning of
1-35 each day's rules calendar known as the uncontested
1-36 resolutions calendar. All resolutions referred to in this
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2- 1 subsection (b) which are approved by the Committee on
2- 2 Rules for placement on the rules calendar shall be placed
2- 3 on the uncontested resolutions calendar unless otherwise
2- 4 ordered by the committee. When considered by the full
2- 5 House, all resolutions on the uncontested resolutions
2- 6 calendar shall be voted on as a group and without debate;
2- 7 except that any member of the House shall have the right
2- 8 to have any resolution on the uncontested resolutions
2- 9 calendar removed therefrom and placed on the general rules
2-10 calendar, in which case it shall be subject to
2-11 consideration in the same manner as any other bill or
2-12 resolution on the general rules calendar. Resolutions for
2-13 placement on the uncontested resolutions calendar shall
2-14 include only: (1) resolutions establishing study
2-15 committees and other similar bodies; and (2) commemorative
2-16 resolutions which name or rename roads, streets, highways,
2-17 parks, bodies of water, bridges, institutions, buildings,
2-18 structures, and other geographical landmarks."
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Clerk of the House
Robert E. Rivers, Jr., Clerk
Last Updated on 01/10/00
