03 LC 14 8218

House Resolution 173
By: Representatives Skipper of the 116^th, Smyre of the 111^th, Porter of the 119^th and Orrock of the 51^st

A RESOLUTION

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives; and for other purposes.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the Rules of the House of Representatives are amended as follows:

SECTION 1.

House Rule 5 is amended to read as follows:
"Rule 5.  The Speaker shall appoint the following standing committees:
(1) Administrative Services.
(2) Agriculture and Consumer Affairs.
(3) Appropriations.
(4) Arts and Humanities.
(5) Banks and Banking.
(6) Children and Youth.
(7) Defense and Veterans Affairs.
(8) Economic Development and Tourism.
(9) Education.
(10) Ethics.
(11) Game, Fish, and Parks.
(12) Governmental Affairs.
(13) Health and Ecology Human Services.
(14) Higher Education.
(15) Human Relations and Aging.
(16) Industrial Relations.
(17) Insurance.
(18) Interstate Cooperation.
(19) Intragovernmental Coordination.
(20) Journals.
(21) Judiciary.
(22) Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment.
(23) Motor Vehicles.
(24) Natural Resources and Environment.
(25) Public Safety.
(26) Public Utilities and Telecommunications.
(27) Regulated Beverages Industries.
(28) Retirement.
(29) Rules.
(30) Special Judiciary.
(31) State Institutions and Property.
(32) State Planning and Community Affairs.
(33) Transportation.
(34) Ways and Means."

SECTION 2.

The second paragraph of Rule 6 is amended to read as follows:
"No member of the House shall be appointed to or serve on less than two or more than three standing committees of the House, with the exception of the Committee on Ethics, the Committee on Interstate Cooperation, and the Committee on Intragovernmental Coordination, and the Committee on Administrative Services."

SECTION 3.

The fourth paragraph of Rule 6 is amended to read as follows:
"The chairman chairperson and vice chairman chairperson of the Committee on Appropriations shall be ex officio members of the Committee on Ways and Means, and the chairman chairperson and vice chairman chairperson of the Committee on Ways and Means shall be ex officio members of the Committee on Appropriations. The majority whip and the minority whip shall be ex officio members of the Committee on Ways and Means. The chairperson of the Committee on Ethics shall be an ex officio member of the Committee on Judiciary. Such ex officio members shall have a vote on such committees."

SECTION 4.

The final paragraph of Rule 12 is amended to read as follows:
"Except for the presentation of the chaplain and the doctor of the day, no No member shall be recognized for the purpose of introducing visitors in the gallery or on the floor of the House, except as authorized by the Speaker or by a previously adopted resolution. The Speaker shall not recognize the presence of visitors in the gallery unless the Speaker deems their presence to be of such importance as to outweigh the value of continuing the business of the House. No person who is not a member of the House shall be recognized to speak unless such person shall have first been so invited by the adoption of a resolution on or before the previous day. Any person who has been invited to speak before the House as a result of the adoption of a resolution shall not address the House until the period after the conclusion of the third reading of bills and resolutions or immediately after the House reconvenes after any recess and prior to the transaction of any other business, except that the Speaker shall have the discretion to waive this restriction when warranted by the prominence of the person or the significance of the occasion."