| SR 2 - Rules of the Senate - adopt |
First Reader Summary
A resolution adopting the Rules of the Senate.
| Recorded Votes |
| Vote # |
SV99-3 |
ADOPTION |
1/12/99 |
| Senate |
Action |
House |
| 1/12/99 |
Read 1st time |
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| 1/12/99 |
Passed/Adopted |
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SR 2 LC 14 7182
A RESOLUTION
1- 1 Adopting the Rules of the Senate; and for other purposes.
1- 2 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the Rules of the Senate in
1- 3 force at the adjournment of the regular 1998 session of the
1- 4 General Assembly are hereby adopted as the Rules of the
1- 5 Senate for the regular 1999 session of the General Assembly
1- 6 and for the duration of this General Assembly, with the
1- 7 following amendments which are also hereby adopted:
1- 8 SECTION 1.
1- 9 The Rules of the Senate in force at the adjournment of the
1-10 regular 1998 session are amended in Rule 17 by striking the
1-11 fourth paragraph of Rule 17 and inserting in its place a new
1-12 paragraph to read as follows:
1-13 "No person or group shall be introduced or allowed to
1-14 address the Senate after the twentieth thirtieth (30th)
1-15 legislative day of a regular session. At any time during a
1-16 regular session the presiding officer may introduce any
1-17 member of the Georgia Congressional Delegation or any
1-18 other person of national prominence. During the first
1-19 nineteen (19) fifteen (15) days of any regular session
1-20 individuals or groups may be introduced and allowed to
1-21 address the Senate only upon the written recommendation of
1-22 a majority of the Decorum Committee. The Decorum Committee
1-23 shall be composed of the President of the Senate, who
1-24 shall be Chairman, the President Pro Tempore, the Majority
1-25 Leader, the Minority Leader, the Majority Whip, and the
1-26 Chairman of the Rules Committee. During the twentieth
1-27 (20th) sixteenth (16th) through the thirtieth (30th)
1-28 legislative days of any regular session, individuals or
1-29 groups may be introduced and allowed to address the Senate
1-30 only after a sponsoring Senator has secured a
1-31 three-fourths' affirmative vote of the members of the
1-32 Rules Committee assembled in a scheduled meeting."
1-33 SECTION 2.
1-34 Said rules are further amended by striking Rule 28 and
1-35 inserting in its place a new rule to read as follows:
1-36 "Rule 28. The following shall be the order of business:
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2- 1 1. Report of the Committee on the Journal.
2- 2 2. Reading of the Journal.
2- 3 3. Motions to Reconsider.
2- 4 4. Confirmation of the Journal.
2- 5 5. Introduction of Bills and Resolutions.
2- 6 6. First Reading and Reference of Senate Bills and
2- 7 Resolutions.
2- 8 7. First Reading and Reference of House Bills and
2- 9 Resolutions, which shall also be in order at any later
2-10 time when no other business is pending.
2-11 8. Reports of Standing Committees.
2-12 9. Second Reading of General Bills and Resolutions.
2-13 10. Call of the Roll.
2-14 11. Recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
2-15 12. Prayer of the Chaplain.
2-16 13. Unanimous Consents and Points of Personal Privilege.
2-17 14. Adoption of Privileged Resolutions.
2-18 15. Motions to withdraw bills or resolutions from one
2-19 committee and commit to another committee.
2-20 16. Passage of Local Uncontested Bills and Resolutions.
2-21 17. Consideration of Local Contested Bills and
2-22 Resolutions.
2-23 18. General Consent Calendar for Population Bills.
2-24 19. General Consent Calendar for Commemorative
2-25 Resolutions.
2-26 20. Motions to Engross.
2-27 20 21. Third Reading and Consideration of General Bills
2-28 and Resolutions."
2-29 SECTION 3.
2-30 Said rules are further amended by striking Rule 30 and
2-31 inserting in its place a new rule to read as follows:
2-32 "Rule 30. The Committee on Rules shall arrange and fix the
2-33 calendar for each day's business for the last 30 25 days
2-34 of each regular session of the General Assembly. Such
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3- 1 calendar shall be a standing and continuing special order
3- 2 during said period. No matter shall be taken up or acted
3- 3 on otherwise than in the order and manner fixed by such
3- 4 calendar, except by a three-fourths vote of those voting,
3- 5 provided such three-fourths constitutes a majority of the
3- 6 members elected to the Senate."
3- 7 SECTION 4.
3- 8 Said rules are further amended by striking the third
3- 9 paragraph of Rule 88 and inserting in its place a new
3-10 paragraph to read as follows:
3-11 "Any bill or resolution postponed to a day certain shall
3-12 take its place at the bottom of the Calendar under which
3-13 the Senate is operating on the day to which it was
3-14 postponed; except that after the tenth fifteenth day of
3-15 any regular session, a bill or resolution postponed for
3-16 the second time shall be placed on the General Calendar
3-17 for the day to which it was postponed."
3-18 SECTION 5.
3-19 Said rules are further amended by striking Rule 97 and
3-20 inserting in its place a new rule to read as follows:
3-21 "Rule 97. All bills and resolutions reconsidered shall
3-22 take their place at the foot of the calendar of bills then
3-23 in order for a third reading; however, during the last
3-24 thirty (30) twenty-five (25) legislative days of each
3-25 session, a reconsidered bill or resolution which was
3-26 passed or adopted shall take its place at the foot of the
3-27 Rules Calendar, and a reconsidered bill or resolution
3-28 which was defeated shall be placed on the General
3-29 Calendar."
3-30 SECTION 6.
3-31 Said rules are further amended by striking Rule 110 and
3-32 inserting in its place a new rule to read as follows:
3-33 "Rule 110. The Secretary shall, as soon as possible after
3-34 any bill or resolution of general application is filed in
3-35 his office, cause the same to be printed and a copy
3-36 thereof distributed to each member forthwith. Whenever
3-37 any such bill or resolution of general application shall
3-38 be reported back by the committee to which it was referred
3-39 with the recommendation that it do pass as amended, the
3-40 Secretary shall cause the recommended amendments to be
3-41 printed and copies thereof distributed to each member. No
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4- 1 bill or resolution of general application shall be placed
4- 2 on its passage unless copies of the same and any committee
4- 3 amendments shall have been printed and distributed to the
4- 4 each Senator prior to consideration for passage. The
4- 5 Senate may at any time by the vote of a majority of those
4- 6 voting, provided the total vote constitutes a quorum,
4- 7 suspend action upon any pending bill or resolution of
4- 8 general application until all amendments offered thereto
4- 9 on the floor of the Senate shall have been printed and
4-10 distributed to the Senators."
4-11 SECTION 7.
4-12 Said rules are further amended by striking the second
4-13 paragraph of Rule 143 and inserting in its place a new
4-14 paragraph to read as follows:
4-15 "However, when the Senate adopts a substitute to any bill
4-16 or resolution other than one offered by the committee from
4-17 which the bill was last reported, passage of the bill
4-18 shall be suspended at that time. The bill shall then be
4-19 placed at the top of the General Calendar of the next
4-20 meeting day of the Senate, at which time the previously
4-21 adopted substitute shall stand automatically reconsidered
4-22 and the substitute and the bill shall be before the Senate
4-23 for consideration and passage. After the nineteenth
4-24 (19th) On and after the fifteenth (15th) legislative day
4-25 of any regular session, the adopted substitute and bill
4-26 shall be placed on the General Calendar, subject to being
4-27 placed on the Rules Calendar by the Rules Committee. Any
4-28 amendment offered by a Senator which contains more than
4-29 three pages or is more than one-half the verbiage of the
4-30 document which it amends (whichever is less) shall be
4-31 treated as a substitute for the purposes of this
4-32 paragraph."
4-33 SECTION 8.
4-34 Said rules are further amended by striking Rules 152 and 153
4-35 and inserting in their place new rules to read as follows:
4-36 "Rule 152. (a) The questions which arise before the Senate
4-37 respecting amendments by the House to a Senate bill or
4-38 resolution are, in order of precedence:
4-39 1st. A motion to agree to the House amendment as amended
4-40 by the Senate.
4-41 1st 2nd. A motion to agree to the House amendment.
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5- 1 2nd 3rd. A motion to disagree with the House amendment.
5- 2 3rd 4th. A motion to recede from the Senate's
5- 3 disagreement or amendment.
5- 4 4th 5th. A motion to insist on the Senate's disagreement
5- 5 or amendment.
5- 6 5th 6th. A motion to adhere to the Senate's disagreement
5- 7 or amendment.
5- 8 (b) Rule 153. The President is authorized on his own
5- 9 motion, or upon point of order being made, when in his
5-10 opinion a House amendment to a Senate bill is not germane,
5-11 to rule out such amendment. The effect of such ruling of
5-12 the President, if not appealed from or if appealed from
5-13 and the appeal not sustained, shall be the same as a vote
5-14 of the Senate to disagree, and as such the Secretary shall
5-15 so report it to the House. Such point of order shall take
5-16 precedence over a motion to agree.
5-17 Rule 153. A motion to amend an amendment made by the House
5-18 to a Senate bill or resolution takes precedence over a
5-19 motion to agree or disagree to said amendment."
5-20 SECTION 9.
5-21 Said rules are further amended by striking the first
5-22 paragraph of Rule 185 and inserting in its place a new
5-23 paragraph to read as follows:
5-24 "The President shall appoint the following standing
5-25 committees, which shall not exceed the following number of
5-26 Senators each:
5-27 AGRICULTURE - 5 11
5-28 APPROPRIATIONS - 37 31
5-29 BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS - 13 11
5-30 CONSUMER AFFAIRS - 5 7
5-31 CORRECTIONS, CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS
5-32 AND PROPERTY - 7 8 DEFENSE AND VETERANS AFFAIRS - 5
5-34 DEFENSE, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY - 10
5-35 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TOURISM AND
5-36 CULTURAL AFFAIRS - 7 11
5-37 EDUCATION - 12
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6- 1 ETHICS - 11 10
6- 2 FINANCE AND PUBLIC UTILITIES - 13 14
6- 3 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - 14
6- 4 HIGHER EDUCATION - 9 8
6- 5 INSURANCE AND LABOR - 8 13
6- 6 INTERSTATE COOPERATION - 7 5
6- 7 JUDICIARY - 8 9
6- 8 NATURAL RESOURCES - 11 12
6- 9 PUBLIC SAFETY - 5 9
6-10 REAPPORTIONMENT- 19
6-11 RETIREMENT - 5 10
6-12 RULES - 20 16 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDUSTRY - 6
6-14 SPECIAL JUDICIARY - 7 11
6-15 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS - 6 7
6-16 TRANSPORTATION - 15 18 YOUTH, AGING AND HUMAN ECOLOGY - 5"
6-18 SECTION 10.
6-19 Said rules are further amended by striking the fourth
6-20 paragraph of Rule 187 and inserting in its place a new
6-21 paragraph to read as follows:
6-22 "Each standing committee at its first organizational
6-23 meeting for the term shall set a quorum; however, the
6-24 quorum shall not be set at less than a majority of the
6-25 membership of the committee. Ex officio members shall not
6-26 be counted in setting a quorum for any committee."
6-27 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in compiling the Rules of the
6-28 Senate for use by the Senate, where any rules previously
6-29 contained two or more undesignated paragraphs or
6-30 subsections, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and
6-31 directed to insert numerical or alphabetic designations at
6-32 the beginning of such previously undesignated paragraphs."
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Secretary of the Senate
Frank Eldridge, Jr., Secretary
Last Updated on 02/24/99
