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1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
3 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
4 | | the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 97th General |
5 | | Assembly are amended by changing Rules 4, 9, 15, 16, 18, 19, |
6 | | 21, 22, 31, 37, 39, 40, 43, 44, 51, 75, and 102 and by adding |
7 | | Rules 42.1 and 76.5 as follows:
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8 | | (House Rule 4)
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9 | | 4. The Speaker.
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10 | | (a) The Speaker has those powers conferred upon
him or her |
11 | | by the Constitution, the laws of Illinois, and any
motions or |
12 | | resolutions adopted by the House or jointly by the House and |
13 | | Senate.
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14 | | (b) Except as otherwise provided by law, the Speaker is the
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15 | | chief administrative officer of the House and has
those powers |
16 | | necessary to carry out those functions. The
Speaker may |
17 | | delegate administrative duties as he
or she deems appropriate.
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18 | | (c) The duties of the Speaker include the
following:
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19 | | (1) To preside at all sessions of the House, although
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20 | | the Speaker may call on any member to preside
temporarily |
21 | | as Presiding Officer.
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22 | | (2) To open the session at the time at which the House
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23 | | is to meet by taking the chair and calling the
members to |
24 | | order. The Speaker may call on any
member to open the |
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1 | | session as Presiding Officer.
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2 | | (3) To announce the business before the House in the
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3 | | order upon which it is to be acted , except as limited by |
4 | | these House Rules .
The Presiding Officer shall
perform this |
5 | | duty during the period that he or she is presiding.
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6 | | (4) To recognize those members entitled to the floor.
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7 | | (5) To state and put to a vote all questions that are
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8 | | regularly moved or that necessarily arise in the
course of |
9 | | the proceedings, and to announce the
result of the vote.
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10 | | (6) To preserve order and decorum.
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11 | | (7) To decide all points of order, subject to appeal,
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12 | | and to speak on these points in preference to other |
13 | | members.
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14 | | (8) To inform the House when necessary, or when any
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15 | | question is raised, on any point of order or
practice |
16 | | pertinent to the pending business.
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17 | | (9) To sign or authenticate all acts, proceedings, or
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18 | | orders of the House. All writs, warrants, and
subpoenae |
19 | | issued by order of the House, or any of its committees,
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20 | | shall be signed by the Speaker and attested by the Clerk.
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21 | | (10) To sign all bills passed by both chambers of the
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22 | | General Assembly to certify that the procedural
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23 | | requirements for passage have been met.
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24 | | (11) To have general supervision of the House
Chamber, |
25 | | House galleries, House committee rooms and chapel, and |
26 | | adjoining and connecting
hallways and passages, including |
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1 | | the duty to protect their security and safety and the power |
2 | | to clear
them when necessary. The House Chamber shall not |
3 | | be
used without permission of the Speaker.
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4 | | (12) To have general supervision of the Clerk and his |
5 | | or
her assistants, the Doorkeeper and his or her
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6 | | assistants, the majority caucus staff, the |
7 | | parliamentarians, and all
employees of the House except the |
8 | | minority caucus
staff.
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9 | | (13) To determine the number of majority caucus
members |
10 | | and minority caucus members to be
appointed to all |
11 | | committees, except the Rules
Committee created by Rule 15 |
12 | | and those committees that may be created under Article XII |
13 | | of these
Rules.
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14 | | (14) To appoint all Chairpersons, Co-Chairpersons, and
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15 | | Vice-Chairpersons of committees (from either the majority |
16 | | or minority caucus),
and to appoint all majority caucus |
17 | | members of committees.
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18 | | (15) To enforce all constitutional provisions, |
19 | | statutes,
rules, and regulations applicable to the House.
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20 | | (16) To guide and direct the proceedings of the House
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21 | | subject to the control and will of the members.
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22 | | (17) To direct the Clerk to correct non-substantive
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23 | | errors in the Journal.
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24 | | (18) To assign meeting places and meeting times to
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25 | | committees and subcommittees.
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26 | | (19) To perform any other duties assigned to the |
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1 | | Speaker
by these House Rules or jointly by the House and |
2 | | Senate.
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3 | | (20) To decide, subject to these House Rules and the |
4 | | control and will of the
members, all questions relating to |
5 | | the priority of
business.
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6 | | (21) To issue, in cooperation with the Comptroller and
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7 | | after clearance with the United States Internal
Revenue |
8 | | Service, written regulations covering
administration of |
9 | | contingent expense allowances of
members of the House.
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10 | | (22) To appoint one or more parliamentarians to serve |
11 | | at the pleasure of
the Speaker.
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12 | | (d) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
13 | | of 71 members
elected.
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14 | | (House Rule 9)
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15 | | 9. Schedule.
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16 | | (a) The Speaker shall periodically establish a schedule
of |
17 | | days on which the House shall convene in regular,
perfunctory, |
18 | | and veto session, with that schedule subject to
revision at the |
19 | | discretion of the Speaker.
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20 | | (b) The Speaker may schedule or reschedule deadlines
at his |
21 | | or her discretion for any action on any
category of legislative |
22 | | measure as the Speaker deems
appropriate, including deadlines |
23 | | for the following
legislative actions:
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24 | | (1) Final day to request bills from the Legislative |
25 | | Reference
Bureau.
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1 | | (2) Final day for introduction of bills.
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2 | | (3) Final day for standing committees of the House to |
3 | | report
House bills, except House appropriation bills.
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4 | | (4) Final day for standing committees of the House to |
5 | | report
House appropriation bills.
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6 | | (5) Final day for Third Reading and passage of House |
7 | | bills,
except House appropriation bills.
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8 | | (6) Final day for Third Reading and passage of House
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9 | | appropriation bills.
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10 | | (7) Final day for standing committees of the House to |
11 | | report
Senate appropriation bills.
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12 | | (8) Final day for standing committees of the House to |
13 | | report
Senate bills, except appropriation bills.
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14 | | (9) Final day for special committees to report to the |
15 | | House.
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16 | | (10) Final day for Third Reading and passage of Senate
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17 | | appropriation bills.
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18 | | (11) Final day for Third Reading and passage of Senate |
19 | | bills,
except appropriation bills.
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20 | | (12) Final day for consideration of joint action |
21 | | motions and conference
committee reports.
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22 | | Deadlines do not apply to legislative measures on the |
23 | | Petition Calendar. |
24 | | (c) The Speaker may schedule or reschedule any necessary |
25 | | deadlines for
legislative action during any special session of |
26 | | the House.
The Speaker may establish a Weekly Order of Business |
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1 | | or a
Daily Order of Business setting forth the date and |
2 | | approximate time at which
specific
legislative measures may be |
3 | | considered by the House. The Weekly Order of
Business or Daily |
4 | | Order of Business is effective upon being filed by the
Speaker |
5 | | with the Clerk and takes the place of the standing order of
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6 | | business for the amount of time necessary for its completion. |
7 | | Nothing in this
Rule , however, limits the Speaker's or |
8 | | Presiding Officer's powers under Rule
4(c)(3) or Rule 43(a) ; |
9 | | however, this Rule is subject to the limitations of Rule 31 .
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10 | | (d) The foregoing deadlines, or any revisions to those |
11 | | deadlines,
are effective upon being filed by the Speaker with
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12 | | the Clerk. The Clerk shall journalize those deadlines.
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13 | | (e) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
14 | | of 71 members
elected.
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15 | | (House Rule 15)
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16 | | 15. Rules Committee.
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17 | | (a) The Rules Committee is created as a permanent |
18 | | committee.
The Rules Committee shall consist of 5 members,
3 |
19 | | appointed by the Speaker and 2
appointed by the Minority |
20 | | Leader. The
Speaker and the Minority Leader are each eligible |
21 | | to be
appointed to the Rules Committee. The Rules Committee may
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22 | | conduct business when a majority of the total
number of its |
23 | | members has been appointed.
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24 | | (b) The majority caucus members of the Rules Committee
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25 | | shall serve at the pleasure of the Speaker, and the minority
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1 | | caucus members shall serve at the pleasure of the Minority
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2 | | Leader. Appointments shall be by notice filed with
the Clerk, |
3 | | and shall be effective for the balance of the term
or until a |
4 | | replacement appointment is made, whichever
first occurs. |
5 | | Appointments take effect upon filing with
the Clerk, regardless |
6 | | of whether the House is in
session. Notwithstanding any other |
7 | | provision of these
Rules, any Representative who is replaced on |
8 | | the Rules
Committee may be re-appointed to the Rules Committee |
9 | | without
concurrence of the House.
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10 | | (c) The Rules Committee shall not consider or conduct a |
11 | | hearing with respect to a subject matter or a legislative |
12 | | measure absent notice first being given as follows: |
13 | | (1) One hour advance notice for the consideration of |
14 | | any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action, |
15 | | conference committee report, or motion to table a committee |
16 | | amendment. |
17 | | (2) Seventy-two hours advance notice to consider the |
18 | | referral of bills to committees of the House or joint |
19 | | committees of the House and Senate. |
20 | | (3) Twenty-four hours advance notice for hearings held |
21 | | for purposes not specified in items (1) and (2) of this |
22 | | subsection (c). |
23 | | (c-1) The Chairperson of the Rules Committee shall post the |
24 | | notice required under subsection (c) on the House bulletin |
25 | | board identifying each subject matter and each legislative |
26 | | measure that may be considered during the hearing. The notice |
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1 | | shall contain the day, hour, and place of the hearing. This |
2 | | subsection may not be suspended. |
3 | | (c-2) The posting requirements of items (2) and (3) of |
4 | | subsection (c) of this Rule may be reduced to a one-hour |
5 | | advance notice upon the adoption of a motion by 71 members |
6 | | elected. The posting requirement of item (1) of subsection (c) |
7 | | of this Rule may not be suspended. |
8 | | Notice requirements for hearings may be suspended only as |
9 | | authorized by this subsection, and no hearing shall be |
10 | | conducted with less than a one-hour advance notice. This |
11 | | subsection may not be suspended. Notwithstanding any other |
12 | | provision of these
Rules, the Rules Committee may meet upon |
13 | | reasonable public
notice that includes a statement of the |
14 | | subjects to be
considered. All legislative measures pending |
15 | | before the
Rules Committee are eligible for consideration at |
16 | | any
of its meetings, and all of those legislative measures are
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17 | | deemed posted for hearing by the Rules Committee for all of
its |
18 | | meetings.
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19 | | (d) Upon concurrence of a majority of those appointed,
the |
20 | | Rules Committee may advance any legislative measure
pending |
21 | | before it to the House, without referral to another committee;
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22 | | except that (i) the Rules Committee , however, shall not so |
23 | | report any bill that has
never been favorably reported by or |
24 | | discharged from a standing committee or a special committee of |
25 | | the House or recommended for action by a joint committee of the |
26 | | House and Senate and (ii) a two-thirds vote of those appointed |
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1 | | to the Rules Committee shall be required to refer to the House |
2 | | any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action, |
3 | | conference committee report, or motion to table a committee |
4 | | amendment . A bill advanced to the House shall be placed on the |
5 | | Daily Calendar on the order on which it appeared before it was |
6 | | re-referred to the Rules Committee.
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7 | | (e) Except for those provisions that cannot be suspended, |
8 | | this This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote of |
9 | | 71
members elected.
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10 | | (House Rule 16)
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11 | | 16. Referrals of Resolutions and Reorganization Orders.
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12 | | (a) All resolutions, except adjournment resolutions and |
13 | | resolutions
considered under subsection (b) or (c) of this |
14 | | Rule, after being initially read
by the
Clerk, shall be ordered |
15 | | reproduced and automatically referred to the Rules
Committee, |
16 | | which may thereafter refer any resolution
before it to the |
17 | | House or to a standing committee or special committee. No
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18 | | resolution, except adjournment resolutions and resolutions |
19 | | considered under
subsection (b) or (c) of this Rule, may be |
20 | | considered by the House
unless (i) referred to the House by the |
21 | | Rules Committee under Rule 18, (ii) favorably reported by a
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22 | | standing committee or special committee, (iii) authorized |
23 | | under Article XII, or (iv) discharged from committee pursuant |
24 | | to Rule 18(g) or Rule 58. An adjournment resolution is subject
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25 | | to Rule 66.
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1 | | (b) Any member may file a congratulatory or death |
2 | | resolution for consideration by the
House. The Principal |
3 | | Sponsor of each congratulatory or death resolution shall pay a
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4 | | reasonable fee, determined by the Clerk with the approval of |
5 | | the Speaker, to
offset the actual cost of producing the |
6 | | congratulatory or death resolution. The fee may
be paid from |
7 | | the office allowance provided by Section 4 of the General |
8 | | Assembly
Compensation Act, or from any other funds available to |
9 | | the member.
Upon agreement of the Speaker and the Minority |
10 | | Leader, congratulatory or death
resolutions may be immediately |
11 | | considered and adopted by the House
without referral to the |
12 | | Rules Committee , unless a member removes a resolution from |
13 | | consideration under this subsection (b) by filing an objection |
14 | | with the Clerk before the vote of the House. Any resolution |
15 | | that is removed under this subsection (b) shall be |
16 | | automatically referred to the Rules Committee and shall be |
17 | | eligible for consideration under subsection (a) . The remaining |
18 | | Those resolutions , not removed from consideration under this |
19 | | subsection (b), may be adopted as a
group by a single motion. |
20 | | Congratulatory and death resolutions shall be
entered on the |
21 | | Journal only by number, sponsorship, and subject. The
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22 | | provisions of this subsection requiring the Principal Sponsor |
23 | | to pay a
reasonable fee may not be suspended.
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24 | | (c) Death resolutions in memory of former members of the |
25 | | General Assembly
and
former
constitutional officers, upon |
26 | | introduction, may be immediately considered by
the House |
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1 | | without referral to the Rules Committee. Those resolutions |
2 | | shall be
entered on the Journal in full.
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3 | | (d) Executive reorganization orders of the Governor
issued |
4 | | under Article V, Sec. 11 of the Constitution,
upon being read |
5 | | into the record by the Clerk, are
automatically referred to the |
6 | | Rules Committee for its
referral to a standing committee or a |
7 | | special committee, which may
issue a recommendation to the |
8 | | House with respect to the
Executive Order. The House may |
9 | | disapprove of an
Executive Order only by resolution adopted by |
10 | | a majority of
those elected; no such resolution is in order |
11 | | until a
standing committee or a special committee has reported |
12 | | to the House on the
executive reorganization, or until the |
13 | | Executive Order has
been discharged under Rule 58.
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14 | | (House Rule 18)
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15 | | 18. Referrals to Committees.
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16 | | (a) All House Bills and Senate Bills, after being
initially |
17 | | read by the Clerk, are automatically referred
to the Rules |
18 | | Committee.
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19 | | (b) During odd-numbered years, the Rules Committee
shall |
20 | | thereafter refer any such bill before it to a
standing |
21 | | committee or a special committee within 3 legislative days, |
22 | | provided that referral shall not be required for a House bill |
23 | | that is introduced after the introduction deadline for House |
24 | | bills or a Senate bill that is referred to the Rules Committee |
25 | | after the deadline for House committee consideration of Senate |
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1 | | bills. During
even-numbered years, the Rules Committee shall |
2 | | refer to
a standing committee or a special committee only |
3 | | appropriation bills
implementing the budget and bills deemed by |
4 | | the Rules
Committee, by the affirmative vote of a majority |
5 | | appointed, to be of an
emergency nature or to be of
substantial |
6 | | importance to the operation of government.
This subsection (b) |
7 | | applies equally to House Bills
and Senate Bills introduced into |
8 | | or received by the House.
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9 | | (b-5) Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Rules Committee |
10 | | may refer bills to a joint committee of the House and Senate |
11 | | created by joint resolution. That joint committee shall report |
12 | | back to the Rules Committee any recommendation for action made |
13 | | by that joint committee. The Rules committee may, at any time, |
14 | | however, refer the bill to a standing or special committee of |
15 | | the House. |
16 | | (c) A standing committee or a special committee may refer a |
17 | | subject matter
or a legislative measure pending in that |
18 | | committee to a subcommittee of that
committee.
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19 | | (d) All legislative measures favorably reported by a
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20 | | standing committee or a special committee, or discharged from a |
21 | | standing
committee or a special committee under Rule 58, shall |
22 | | be referred to the House
and placed on the appropriate order of |
23 | | business, which shall
appear on the daily calendar. All |
24 | | legislative measures, except bills or
resolutions on the |
25 | | Consent Calendar, bills or resolutions assigned short debate
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26 | | status by a standing committee or special committee, and floor
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1 | | amendments,
so referred are automatically assigned standard |
2 | | debate status, subject to
Rule 52.
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3 | | (e) All floor amendments, joint action motions
for final |
4 | | action, conference committee reports, and motions to table |
5 | | committee
amendments, upon
filing with the Clerk, are |
6 | | automatically referred to the Rules
Committee. The Rules |
7 | | Committee may refer any floor amendment, joint
action motion |
8 | | for final action, conference committee report, or motion to |
9 | | table
a committee amendment
to the House or to a standing |
10 | | committee or a special committee
for its review and |
11 | | consideration (in those instances, and notwithstanding
any |
12 | | other provision of these Rules, the standing committee
or |
13 | | special committee may hold a hearing
on and consider those |
14 | | legislative measures pursuant to
a one-hour advance notice |
15 | | given no later than the calendar day before the date of the |
16 | | hearing ). Any floor amendment, joint action motion for final
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17 | | action, conference committee report, or motion to table a |
18 | | committee amendment
that is not referred to the House by, or |
19 | | discharged from, the Rules
Committee
is out of order, except |
20 | | that any floor amendment, joint
action
motion for final action, |
21 | | conference committee report, or motion to table a
committee |
22 | | amendment favorably reported
by, or discharged from, a standing |
23 | | committee or a special committee is deemed referred to
the |
24 | | House by the Rules Committee for purposes of this Rule. All |
25 | | joint action
motions for final action, conference committee |
26 | | reports and motions to table
committee amendments so referred |
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1 | | are
automatically assigned standard debate status, subject to
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2 | | Rule 52.
Floor amendments referred to the House under this Rule |
3 | | are automatically
assigned amendment debate status.
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4 | | (f) The Rules Committee may at any time refer or
re-refer a |
5 | | legislative measure from a committee to a
Committee of the |
6 | | Whole or to any other committee.
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7 | | (g) Legislative measures may be discharged from the Rules
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8 | | Committee upon the affirmative vote of 71 members elected only |
9 | | by unanimous consent of the House . Any bill
discharged from the |
10 | | Rules Committee shall be placed on the
order of Second Reading |
11 | | and assigned standard debate status, subject to
Rule 52.
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12 | | (h) Except for those provisions that require unanimous
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13 | | consent, this Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative |
14 | | vote of 71
members elected.
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15 | | (House Rule 19)
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16 | | 19. Re-Referrals to the Rules Committee.
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17 | | (a) All legislative measures that fail to meet
the |
18 | | applicable deadline established under Rule
9 for reporting to |
19 | | the House by a standing committee or a special committee,
for |
20 | | Third Reading and passage, or for consideration of joint action |
21 | | motions and
conference committee reports are automatically
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22 | | re-referred to the Rules Committee unless:
(i) the deadline has |
23 | | been suspended or revised by the Speaker,
with re-referral to |
24 | | the Rules Committee to occur if the bill
has not been reported |
25 | | to the House in accordance with a
revised deadline; or (ii) the |
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1 | | Rules Committee has issued a
written exception to the Clerk |
2 | | with respect to a particular
bill before the reporting |
3 | | deadline, with re-referral
to occur, if at all, in accordance |
4 | | with the written
exception ; or (iii) the bill or resolution is |
5 | | pending before the House on the Petition Calendar .
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6 | | (b) All legislative measures pending before the House or
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7 | | any of its committees are automatically re-referred to the |
8 | | Rules
Committee on the 31st consecutive day that the House has |
9 | | not
convened for session unless: (i) any deadline applicable to |
10 | | the bill or
resolution that has been designated by the Speaker |
11 | | under Rule 9 exceeds 31
days, with re-referral to occur, if at |
12 | | all, in accordance with that deadline;
(ii) this Rule is
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13 | | suspended under Rule 67; or (iii) the Rules
Committee, by the |
14 | | affirmative vote of a majority appointed, issues a written
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15 | | exception to the Clerk before that
31st day ; or (iv) the bill |
16 | | or resolution is pending before the House on the Petition |
17 | | Calendar .
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18 | | (House Rule 21)
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19 | | 21. Notice.
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20 | | (a) Except as provided in Rule 18(e) or unless
this Rule is |
21 | | suspended under Rule 67 or unless the Rules Committee by |
22 | | majority vote waives the notice requirement for a subject |
23 | | matter hearing of any committee, standing committees,
special |
24 | | committees, committees created under Article X of these Rules, |
25 | | and subcommittees of those committees shall not consider or |
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1 | | conduct a hearing with respect
to a subject matter or a |
2 | | legislative measure absent notice first being given as
follows:
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3 | | (1) The Chairperson of the committee, or the |
4 | | Co-Chairperson from the
majority caucus of a standing or |
5 | | special committee, shall, no later
than 6 days before any |
6 | | proposed hearing, post a
notice on the House bulletin board |
7 | | identifying each subject matter and each
legislative |
8 | | measure, other than a committee
amendment upon initial |
9 | | consideration under
Rule 40, that may be considered during |
10 | | that
hearing. The notice shall contain the day, hour, and
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11 | | place of the hearing. Legislative measures and subject |
12 | | matters posted for hearing as provided in this item (1) may |
13 | | also be considered at any committee hearing re-convened |
14 | | following a recess of the committee for which notice was |
15 | | posted, but only if the House has met or was scheduled to |
16 | | meet in regular, veto, or special session on each calendar |
17 | | day from the time of the original committee hearing to the |
18 | | re-convened committee hearing.
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19 | | (2) Meetings of the Rules Committee may be called
under |
20 | | Rule 15; meetings of the standing
committees and special |
21 | | committees to consider floor amendments,
joint action |
22 | | motions for final action consideration , conference |
23 | | committee reports, and
motions to table committee |
24 | | amendments
may be called under Rule 18.
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25 | | (3) The Chairperson, or Co-Chairperson from the |
26 | | majority caucus of a standing or
special committee, shall, |
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1 | | in advance of a committee
hearing, notify all Principal |
2 | | Sponsors of
legislative measures posted for that hearing of |
3 | | the
date, time, and place of hearing. When practical,
the |
4 | | Clerk shall include a notice of all scheduled
hearings, |
5 | | together with all posted bills and
resolutions, in the |
6 | | Daily Calendar of the House.
Regardless of whether a |
7 | | particular legislative
measure or subject matter has been |
8 | | posted for hearing, it is in
order for a committee during |
9 | | any of its meetings to
refer a subject matter or |
10 | | legislative measure pending before it to a
subcommittee of |
11 | | that committee.
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12 | | (b) Other than the Rules Committee, no committee may meet |
13 | | during any session
of the House, and no commission created by |
14 | | Illinois law that has legislative
membership may meet during |
15 | | any session of the House.
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16 | | (c) Each standing appropriations committee shall meet at |
17 | | least once during each month of the calendar year. When the |
18 | | House is not in session, each standing appropriations committee |
19 | | shall hold each month at least one hearing in Illinois at a |
20 | | location other than the City of Springfield or the City of |
21 | | Chicago. |
22 | | (d) (c) Regardless of whether notice has been
previously |
23 | | given, it is always in order for a committee
to table any |
24 | | legislative measure pending before it
when the Principal |
25 | | Sponsor so requests, subject to Rule 60.
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26 | | (e) (d) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative |
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1 | | vote of 71 members
elected, subject to Rule 25.
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2 | | (House Rule 22)
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3 | | 22. Committee Procedure.
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4 | | (a) A committee may consider any legislative measure
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5 | | referred to it, except as provided in subsection (b), and may |
6 | | make with
respect to that legislative
measure one of the |
7 | | following reports to the House or to the
parent committee, as |
8 | | appropriate:
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9 | | (1) that the bill "do pass";
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10 | | (2) that the bill "do not pass";
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11 | | (3) that the bill "do pass as amended";
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12 | | (4) that the bill "do not pass as amended";
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13 | | (5) that the resolution "be adopted";
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14 | | (6) that the resolution "be not adopted";
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15 | | (7) that the resolution "be adopted as amended";
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16 | | (8) that the resolution "be not adopted as amended";
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17 | | (9) that the floor amendment, joint action motion, |
18 | | conference committee
report, or motion to table a committee |
19 | | amendment referred by the Rules
Committee "be adopted";
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20 | | (10) that the floor amendment, joint action motion, |
21 | | conference
committee report, or motion to table a committee |
22 | | amendment referred by the
Rules Committee "be not adopted";
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23 | | (11) "without recommendation"; or
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24 | | (12) "tabled".
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25 | | Any of the foregoing reports may be made only upon the
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1 | | concurrence of a majority of those appointed. All
legislative |
2 | | measures reported "do pass", "do pass as
amended", "be |
3 | | adopted", or "be adopted as amended"
are favorably reported to |
4 | | the House.
Except as otherwise provided by these Rules,
any |
5 | | legislative measure referred or re-referred to a
committee and |
6 | | not reported under this Rule shall
remain in that committee.
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7 | | (b) No bill or committee amendment that provides for an |
8 | | appropriation of
money from the State Treasury may be |
9 | | considered by an Appropriations Committee
unless the bill or |
10 | | committee amendment is limited to appropriations to a single
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11 | | department, office, or institution; this provision does not |
12 | | apply to floor
amendments, joint action motions, or conference |
13 | | committee reports.
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14 | | No bill that provides for an appropriation
of money from |
15 | | the State Treasury may be
considered for passage by the House |
16 | | unless it has first
been favorably reported by an |
17 | | Appropriations
Committee or:
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18 | | (1) the bill was discharged from an Appropriations
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19 | | Committee under Rule 58;
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20 | | (2) the bill was exempted from this requirement by a
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21 | | majority of those appointed to the Rules Committee;
or
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22 | | (3) this Rule was suspended under Rule 67.
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23 | | Standing appropriations committees shall conduct hearings |
24 | | for the purpose of reviewing (i) performance data compiled by |
25 | | departments of State government pursuant to Section 50-15 of |
26 | | the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of |
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1 | | Illinois and (ii) other performance data that is requested by |
2 | | the committees from departments of State government and other |
3 | | recipients of State appropriations. |
4 | | (c) The Chairperson of each committee, or Co-Chairperson |
5 | | from the majority
caucus of a standing or special committee, |
6 | | shall keep, or
cause to be kept by the Clerk's Office, a record |
7 | | in which there shall be entered:
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8 | | (1) The time and place of each meeting of the
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9 | | committee.
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10 | | (2) The attendance of committee members at each |
11 | | meeting.
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12 | | (3) The votes cast by the committee members on all
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13 | | legislative measures acted on by the committee.
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14 | | (4) The "Record of Committee Witness" forms executed by
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15 | | each person appearing or registering in each
committee |
16 | | meeting, which shall include
identification of the |
17 | | witness, the person, group, or
firm represented by |
18 | | appearance and the capacity
in which the representation is |
19 | | made (if the person
is representing someone other than |
20 | | himself or
herself), his or her position on the legislation
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21 | | under consideration, and the nature of his or her
desired |
22 | | testimony.
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23 | | (5) An audio recording of the proceedings.
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24 | | (6) Such additional information as may be requested by
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25 | | the Clerk.
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26 | | (d) The committee Chairperson, or the Co-Chairperson from |
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1 | | the majority
caucus
of a standing or special committee, shall |
2 | | file with the Clerk,
along with every legislative measure |
3 | | reported upon, a written report containing
such information as |
4 | | required by the
Clerk. The Clerk may adopt forms, policies, and |
5 | | procedures
with respect to the preparation, filing, and |
6 | | maintenance of
the reports.
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7 | | (e) When a committee fails to report a legislative
measure |
8 | | pending before it to the House, or when a committee
fails to |
9 | | hold a public hearing on a legislative measure
pending before |
10 | | it, the exclusive means to bring that
legislative measure |
11 | | directly before the House for its
consideration is as provided |
12 | | in Rule 18 or Rule 58.
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13 | | (f) No legislative measure may be called for a vote in a |
14 | | standing committee
or special
committee in the absence of the |
15 | | Principal Sponsor. The committee Chairperson, the
committee |
16 | | Minority Spokesperson, or a chief
co-sponsor may present a bill |
17 | | or resolution in committee with the approval of
the Principal |
18 | | Sponsor when the committee consents.
In the case of standing or |
19 | | special committees with Co-Chairpersons from different |
20 | | political
parties, the "Chairperson" means the Co-Chairperson |
21 | | from the majority caucus, and the "Minority Spokesperson" means |
22 | | the Co-Chairperson from the minority caucus.
This subsection |
23 | | may not be suspended.
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24 | | (g) Motions for committee approval of bills and resolutions |
25 | | are renewable, provided that no
bill or resolution may be voted |
26 | | on more than
twice in any committee on motions to report the |
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1 | | bill or
resolution favorably, or to reconsider the vote by |
2 | | which
the committee adopted a motion to report the bill or
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3 | | resolution unfavorably. A bill or resolution having failed
to |
4 | | receive a favorable recommendation after 2 such record
votes |
5 | | shall be automatically reported with the appropriate
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6 | | unfavorable recommendation.
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7 | | (h) A bill or resolution shall be given short debate status
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8 | | by report of the committee if the bill or resolution was |
9 | | favorably
reported by a three-fifths vote of the members |
10 | | present and voting, including those voting "present".
Bills and |
11 | | resolutions receiving favorable reports may be
placed upon the |
12 | | Consent Calendar as provided in Rule 42.
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13 | | (i) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
14 | | of 71 members
elected.
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15 | | (House Rule 31)
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16 | | 31. Standing Order of Business. The Unless otherwise |
17 | | determined by the
Presiding Officer, the standing daily order |
18 | | of business of the House
is as follows:
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19 | | (1) Call to Order, Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, |
20 | | and
Roll Call.
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21 | | (2) Petition Calendar.
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22 | | (3) (2) Approval of the Journal.
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23 | | (4) (3) Reading of House Bills a first time.
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24 | | (5) (4) Reports from committees, with reports from the |
25 | | Rules
Committee ordinarily made at any time.
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1 | | (6) (5) Presentation of Resolutions, Petitions, and |
2 | | Messages.
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3 | | (7) (6) Introduction of House Bills.
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4 | | (8) (7) Messages from the Senate, not including reading
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5 | | Senate Bills a first time.
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6 | | (9) (8) Reading of House Bills a second time.
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7 | | (10) (9) Reading of House Bills a third time.
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8 | | (11) (10) Reading of Senate Bills a third time.
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9 | | (12) (11) Reading of Senate Bills a second time.
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10 | | (13) (12) Reading of Senate Bills a first time.
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11 | | (14) (13) House Bills on the Order of Concurrence.
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12 | | (15) (14) Senate Bills on the Order of Non-Concurrence.
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13 | | (16) (15) Conference Committee Reports.
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14 | | (17) (16) Motions in Writing.
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15 | | (18) (17) Constitutional Amendment Resolutions.
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16 | | (19) (18) Motions with respect to Vetoes.
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17 | | (20) (19) Consideration of Resolutions.
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18 | | (21) (20) Motions to Discharge Committee.
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19 | | (22) (21) Motions to Take from the Table.
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20 | | (23) (22) Motions to Suspend the Rules.
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21 | | (24) (23) Consideration of Bills on the Order of |
22 | | Postponed
Consideration.
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23 | | The Presiding Officer may vary the daily order of business |
24 | | of the House, but only with respect to items (3) through (24); |
25 | | items (1) and (2) must always be the first orders of business. |
26 | | The House may also return to the order of business under item |
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1 | | (2) at the direction of the Presiding Officer or upon the |
2 | | adoption of a motion to change the order of business. |
3 | | This rule may not be suspended.
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4 | | (House Rule 37)
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5 | | 37. Bills.
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6 | | (a) A bill may be introduced in the House by sponsorship
of |
7 | | one or more members of the House, whose names shall be on
the |
8 | | reproduced copies of the bills, in the House Journal, and in
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9 | | the Legislative Digest. The Principal Sponsor shall be the
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10 | | first name to appear on the bill and may be joined by no more
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11 | | than 4 chief co-sponsors with the approval of the Principal
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12 | | Sponsor; other co-sponsors shall be separated from the
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13 | | Principal Sponsor and any chief co-sponsors by a comma.
The |
14 | | Principal Sponsor may change the
sponsorship of a bill to that |
15 | | of one or more other
Representatives, or
to that of the |
16 | | standing committee or special committee to which the bill was
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17 | | referred or from which the bill was reported. Such change
may |
18 | | be made at any time the bill is pending before the House
or any |
19 | | of its committees by filing a notice with the Clerk, provided |
20 | | that the addition of any member as a Principal Sponsor, chief |
21 | | co-sponsor, or co-sponsor must be with that member's consent.
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22 | | This subsection may not be suspended.
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23 | | (b) The Principal Sponsor of a bill controls that
bill. A |
24 | | committee-sponsored bill is
controlled by the Chairperson, or |
25 | | if Co-Chairpersons have been appointed, by
the Co-Chairperson |
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1 | | from the majority caucus, who for purposes of
these Rules is |
2 | | deemed the Principal Sponsor. Committee-sponsored bills may |
3 | | not
have individual co-sponsors.
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4 | | (c) The Senate sponsor of a bill originating in the
Senate |
5 | | may request substitute House sponsorship of that bill
by filing |
6 | | a notice with the Clerk; such a notice is
automatically |
7 | | referred to the Rules Committee and deemed
adopted if approved |
8 | | by the Rules Committee. If disapproved
by the Rules Committee, |
9 | | the notice shall lie on the table.
If the Rules Committee fails |
10 | | to act on a notice,
that notice may be discharged by unanimous |
11 | | consent.
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12 | | (d) All bills introduced in the House shall be read by
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13 | | title a first time, ordered reproduced, and automatically
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14 | | referred to the Rules Committee in accordance with Rule 18. |
15 | | After
a Senate Bill is received and a House member has |
16 | | submitted notification to the Clerk of sponsorship of that |
17 | | bill, it shall be read by title,
ordered reproduced, and
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18 | | automatically referred to the Rules Committee in
accordance |
19 | | with Rule 18.
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20 | | (e) All bills introduced into the House shall be
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21 | | accompanied by 6
copies. Any bill that amends a statute
shall |
22 | | indicate the particular changes in the following
manner:
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23 | | (1) All new matter shall be underscored.
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24 | | (2) All matter that is to be omitted or superseded
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25 | | shall be shown crossed with a line.
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26 | | (e-5) Appropriation bills for the operation of State |
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1 | | government shall make appropriations pursuant to the |
2 | | standardized line items identified as items (1) through (18) of |
3 | | Section 13 of the State Finance Act with specific appropriation |
4 | | amounts for each item. Appropriations for other purposes may be |
5 | | included in an appropriation bill only if required by law or if |
6 | | it has been a custom and practice as documented by |
7 | | appropriations enacted for State fiscal year 2009. |
8 | | This subsection (e-5) may be suspended only by the |
9 | | affirmative vote of 71 members elected. |
10 | | (f) No bill shall be passed by the House except on a
record |
11 | | vote of a majority of those elected, subject to Rule 69. A bill |
12 | | that
has
lost on third reading and has not been reconsidered |
13 | | may not thereafter be
revived. If a motion for the adoption of |
14 | | a first conference committee report fails and the motion is not |
15 | | reconsidered, then a second conference committee may be |
16 | | appointed as provided in Rule 76(c). If a motion for the |
17 | | adoption of a second conference committee report fails and is |
18 | | not reconsidered, then the bill may not thereafter be revived.
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19 | | (g) An appropriation bill that is amended in the House may |
20 | | not be considered on Third Reading until the third calendar day |
21 | | following the adoption or tabling of any House committee or |
22 | | House floor amendments to the bill. |
23 | | This subsection (g) may be suspended only by the |
24 | | affirmative vote of 71 members elected.
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25 | | (House Rule 39)
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1 | | 39. Reproduction and Distribution. The Clerk shall, as
soon |
2 | | as any bill or amendment is reproduced, cause the bill to be
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3 | | placed upon the desks of the members. Reproduction and |
4 | | distribution
may be done electronically, or the Clerk may |
5 | | establish
a method that any
member may use to secure a copy of
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6 | | any bill. The Clerk shall record the date and time at which |
7 | | each amendment is filed and distributed.
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8 | | (House Rule 40)
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9 | | 40. Amendments.
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10 | | (a) An amendment to a bill may be adopted by a
standing |
11 | | committee or special committee when the bill is before that |
12 | | committee.
An amendment to a bill may be adopted
by the House |
13 | | when a bill is on the order of Second Reading
if: (i) the Rules |
14 | | Committee has referred the floor amendment to the
House for |
15 | | consideration under Rule 18; (ii) a standing committee or |
16 | | special
committee has referred the floor amendment to the |
17 | | House; or (iii) the floor amendment has been discharged from |
18 | | committee pursuant to Rule 18(g) or Rule 58. All
amendments |
19 | | must be in
writing.
All committee amendments that are in |
20 | | compliance with the requirements of these House Rules have been |
21 | | timely filed, as determined by the
Chairperson, shall be |
22 | | considered by the committee or a subcommittee of that
committee |
23 | | prior to consideration by the committee of the bill to which |
24 | | the
amendment relates.
All amendments not adopted to a bill and |
25 | | that are still pending in a committee or before the House upon |
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1 | | the
passage or defeat of a bill on Third Reading are |
2 | | automatically
tabled.
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3 | | (b) Except as otherwise provided in these Rules,
committee |
4 | | amendments may be offered only by the Principal Sponsor or a |
5 | | member of the committee while the affected bill
is assigned to |
6 | | before that committee, and shall be adopted by a majority
of |
7 | | those appointed. If a committee amendment is filed by a member |
8 | | who is not authorized to do so, that amendment shall be |
9 | | recorded by the Clerk as out of order. Floor amendments may be |
10 | | offered for adoption only by
a Representative while the bill is |
11 | | on the order of Second
Reading, subject to Rule 18, and shall |
12 | | be adopted by a majority vote of the
House. The sponsor of a |
13 | | committee or floor amendment may change the sponsorship of the |
14 | | amendment to that of another member, with that other member's |
15 | | consent. Such change may be made at any time the amendment is |
16 | | pending before the House or any of its committees by filing |
17 | | notice with the Clerk. A committee amendment may be the subject |
18 | | of a motion
to "do adopt" or "do not adopt".
A committee |
19 | | amendment may be adopted only by a successful
motion to "do |
20 | | adopt".
The Chairperson of a committee may refer any committee |
21 | | amendment to a
subcommittee of that committee.
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22 | | (c) Committee amendments shall be filed with the Clerk of |
23 | | the House and shall be automatically referred to the committee |
24 | | before which the underlying bill or resolution is pending
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25 | | Chairperson of the committee, and are in order only when
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26 | | sufficient copies have been filed to provide each member of
the |
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1 | | committee with a copy (which may be done in the same manner as |
2 | | distribution
of bills under Rule 39) and 6
additional copies |
3 | | for the
Chairperson .
Floor amendments
shall be filed with the |
4 | | Clerk only while the bill is on the order of Second Reading or |
5 | | Third Reading . Amendments shall not be considered filed until |
6 | | they are entered into the General Assembly's computer system by |
7 | | the Clerk as a filed amendment. Amendments , and are in order |
8 | | only when 6
copies have
been filed. The Clerk shall number |
9 | | amendments sequentially in the order submitted, and all |
10 | | amendments that are in order shall be considered in ascending |
11 | | numerical order.
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12 | | (d) The Clerk shall have reproduced , as expeditiously as |
13 | | possible, all adopted committee
amendments that are filed |
14 | | pursuant to these Rules come before the House.
The Clerk shall |
15 | | also have reproduced all floor amendments referred to the House
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16 | | by a committee . No committee or floor amendment may be adopted |
17 | | by the House
unless it has been reproduced and placed on the |
18 | | members' desks pursuant to in the same
manner as for bills |
19 | | under Rule 39 , except that no committee amendment may be |
20 | | adopted by a committee during the 24-hour time period |
21 | | immediately following the filing of the amendment .
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22 | | This subsection (d) may be suspended only by the |
23 | | affirmative vote of 71 members elected. |
24 | | (e) No floor amendment is in order unless
it has been first |
25 | | referred to the House for consideration by the
Rules Committee |
26 | | under Rule 18, or favorably reported by, or discharged from, a |
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1 | | standing committee or special committee. A floor amendment may |
2 | | be referred to the House for consideration, or to a standing or |
3 | | special committee, only while the bill is on the order of |
4 | | Second Reading or Third Reading.
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5 | | (f) Amendments that propose to alter any existing law
shall |
6 | | conform to the requirements of Rule 37(e).
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7 | | (g) If a committee reports a bill "do pass as
amended", the |
8 | | committee amendments are deemed adopted by
the committee action |
9 | | and shall be reproduced and placed on
the members' desks (which |
10 | | may be done in the same manner as provided for bills
under Rule |
11 | | 39) before the bill may be read a second time .
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12 | | (h) In the case of special committees with Co-Chairpersons |
13 | | from different
political parties, the "Chairperson" for the |
14 | | purposes of this Rule is the
Co-Chairperson from the majority |
15 | | caucus.
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16 | | (i) No committee amendment shall be filed with the Clerk |
17 | | while a bill is assigned to the Rules Committee. Committee |
18 | | amendments may be filed for a resolution pending in the Rules |
19 | | Committee only if the resolution would adopt or amend House |
20 | | Rules or Joint House-Senate Rules pursuant to Rule 67. |
21 | | (House Rule 42.1 new) |
22 | | 42.1. Petition Motion Calendar. |
23 | | (a) The Principal Sponsor of a bill or resolution may file |
24 | | with the Clerk a motion signed by 71 members requesting |
25 | | placement of that bill or resolution on the Petition Calendar |
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1 | | with regard to any bill or resolution pending in a House |
2 | | Committee or pending on an order of business on the Daily |
3 | | Calendar. |
4 | | (b) The Clerk shall include a Petition Calendar on the |
5 | | Daily Calendar and designate it as a separate part of the Daily |
6 | | Calendar. A bill that is pending in a committee when a petition |
7 | | motion is filed shall be placed on the Petition Calendar order |
8 | | of Second Reading. A resolution that is pending in a committee |
9 | | when a petition motion is filed shall be placed on the Petition |
10 | | Calendar order of Resolutions. A bill or resolution that is on |
11 | | an order of business on the Daily Calendar when a petition |
12 | | motion is filed shall be placed on the same order of business |
13 | | on the Petition Calendar. |
14 | | (c) A legislative measure on the Petition Calendar shall be |
15 | | moved between the orders of Second Reading, Third Reading, and |
16 | | Postponed Consideration at the request of the Principal |
17 | | Sponsor, except as limited by Rule 41. |
18 | | (d) Whenever the House is on this order of business, the |
19 | | principal sponsor of each legislative measure on the Petition |
20 | | Calendar shall have the right to call that measure for |
21 | | consideration by the House. |
22 | | (e) This rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
23 | | of 71 members elected.
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24 | | (House Rule 43)
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25 | | 43. Changing Order of Business.
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1 | | (a) Any order of business may be changed at any time by
the |
2 | | Speaker or Presiding Officer , except as limited by Rule 31 .
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3 | | (b) Any order of business may be changed at any time
upon |
4 | | the motion of any member, supported by 5 additional
members, if |
5 | | the motion is adopted by an affirmative vote of
71 members |
6 | | elected.
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7 | | (c) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
8 | | of 71 members
elected.
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9 | | (House Rule 44)
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10 | | 44. Special Orders; Rules Committee.
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11 | | (a) A special order of business may be set by the Rules |
12 | | Committee
or by the Speaker. The Principal Sponsor of a bill or |
13 | | resolution must consent
to the placement of the bill or |
14 | | resolution on a special order.
A special order shall fix the |
15 | | day to which it applies and the
matters to be included. The |
16 | | Speaker, or the Rules Committee by a vote of
a majority of the |
17 | | members appointed, may establish time limits for
a special |
18 | | order and may establish limitations on debate
during a special |
19 | | order (notwithstanding Rule 52), in which event the allotted
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20 | | time
shall be fairly divided between proponents and opponents |
21 | | of
the legislation to be considered. A special order of |
22 | | business
takes the place of the standing order for such time as |
23 | | may be necessary
for its completion but may occur no earlier |
24 | | than after the completion of standing order (2) of Rule 31 . |
25 | | Only matters that may otherwise properly be before
the House |
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1 | | may be included in a special order.
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2 | | (b) A special order shall appear on the Daily Calendar
for |
3 | | 3 legislative days. This subsection (b) may be
suspended only |
4 | | by the affirmative vote of 71 members elected.
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5 | | (c) A special order may be suspended, amended, or
modified |
6 | | by motion adopted by an affirmative vote of 60
members. A |
7 | | special order shall be suspended by a written
objection signed |
8 | | by 3 members of the Rules Committee and
filed during the first |
9 | | legislative day on which the special
order appears on the |
10 | | calendar.
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11 | | (d) This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote |
12 | | of 71 members elected.
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13 | | (House Rule 51)
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14 | | 51. Decorum.
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15 | | (a) When any member is about to speak
to the House, he or |
16 | | she shall rise and address the
Presiding Officer as "Speaker". |
17 | | The Presiding Officer,
upon recognizing the member, shall |
18 | | address him or
her by name, and thereupon the engineer
in |
19 | | charge of operating the microphones in the House shall give
the |
20 | | use of the microphone to the member who has been
so recognized. |
21 | | The member in speaking shall confine himself
or herself to the |
22 | | subject matter under discussion and avoid
personalities.
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23 | | (b) Questions affecting the rights, reputation, and
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24 | | conduct of members of the House in their representative
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25 | | capacity are questions of personal privilege. A matter of
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1 | | personal explanation does not constitute a question of
personal |
2 | | privilege.
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3 | | (c) If 2 or more members rise at once, the
Presiding |
4 | | Officer shall name the member who is to
speak first.
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5 | | (d) No person shall give any signs of approbation or
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6 | | disapprobation while the House is in session.
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7 | | (e) Recognition of guests by any member is prohibited,
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8 | | except that the Speaker or Presiding Officer may recognize an |
9 | | honored guest.
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10 | | (f) While the Presiding Officer is putting a question,
no |
11 | | member shall leave or walk across the House
Chamber. When a |
12 | | member is addressing the House, no
member or other person |
13 | | entitled to the floor shall
entertain private discourse or pass |
14 | | between the member speaking and
the Presiding Officer. No |
15 | | messages from individuals located outside the House Chamber |
16 | | shall be delivered in the Chamber by a doorkeeper, page, or any |
17 | | other person while the House is on any of the following orders |
18 | | of business: Reading of House Bills a third time, Reading of |
19 | | Senate Bills a third time, House Bills on the Order of |
20 | | Concurrence, Senate Bills on the Order of Non-Concurrence, and |
21 | | Conference Committee Reports.
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22 | | (g) In case of any disturbance or disorderly conduct, the
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23 | | Speaker or Presiding Officer may order that the lobby, gallery, |
24 | | or hallways
adjoining the
House Chamber be cleared.
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25 | | (h) No literature may be distributed on the House floor.
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26 | | (i) No member may be absent from a session of the House
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1 | | unless he or she has leave or is sick or his or her absence is
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2 | | unavoidable. The switch to the electrical roll call
recording |
3 | | equipment located on the desk of any member who has
been |
4 | | excused or is absent shall be locked by the Clerk and
shall not |
5 | | be unlocked until the member returns
and files with
the Clerk a
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6 | | request to be shown as present on the quorum roll
call as |
7 | | provided in Rule 32(c).
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8 | | (House Rule 75)
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9 | | 75. House Consideration of Joint Action.
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10 | | (a) No joint action motion for final action or
conference |
11 | | committee report may be considered by the House
unless it has |
12 | | first been referred to the House by the Rules Committee or a
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13 | | standing committee or special committee in
accordance with Rule |
14 | | 18, or unless the joint action motion
or conference committee |
15 | | report has been
discharged from the Rules Committee under Rule |
16 | | 18.
Joint action motions for final action consideration and |
17 | | conference committee reports
referred to a standing committee |
18 | | or special committee by the Rules Committee
may not be |
19 | | discharged from the standing committee or special committee. |
20 | | This
subsection (a) may be suspended by unanimous consent.
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21 | | (b) No conference committee report may be considered by
the |
22 | | House unless it has been reproduced and
placed on the members' |
23 | | desks, in the same manner as provided for bills under
Rule 39, |
24 | | for one full day during the period beginning with the convening |
25 | | of the
House on the 2nd Wednesday of January each year and |
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1 | | ending on the 30th day
prior to the scheduled adjournment of |
2 | | the regular session established each year
by the Speaker |
3 | | pursuant to Rule 9(a), and for one full hour on any other day.
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4 | | (c) Before any conference committee report on an
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5 | | appropriation bill is considered by the House, the
conference |
6 | | committee report shall first be the subject of a
public hearing |
7 | | by a standing Appropriations Committee or a
special committee |
8 | | (the conference committee report need not be referred to an
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9 | | Appropriations Committee or special committee, but instead may
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10 | | remain before the Rules Committee or the House, as the case may |
11 | | be).
The hearing shall be held pursuant to not less than one |
12 | | hour
advance notice by announcement on the House floor, or one |
13 | | day
advance notice by posting on the House bulletin board. An
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14 | | Appropriations Committee or special committee shall not issue
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15 | | any report with respect to the conference committee report |
16 | | following the
hearing.
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17 | | (d) Any House Bill amended in the Senate and returned to
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18 | | the House for concurrence in the Senate amendment shall lie
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19 | | upon the desk of the Clerk for not less than one hour before
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20 | | being further considered.
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21 | | (e) No House Bill that is
returned to the House with Senate |
22 | | amendments may be called
except by the Principal Sponsor, or by |
23 | | a chief co-sponsor with the consent of
the Principal Sponsor.
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24 | | This subsection may not be suspended.
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25 | | (f) Except as otherwise provided in Rule 74, the
report of |
26 | | a conference committee on a non-appropriation bill
or |
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1 | | resolution shall be confined to the subject of the bill or
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2 | | resolution referred to the conference committee. The report
of |
3 | | a conference committee on an appropriation bill shall be
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4 | | confined to the subject of appropriations.
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5 | | (House Rule 76.5 new) |
6 | | 76.5. Appropriation Bills. Joint action motions for final |
7 | | action on the order of Concurrence regarding an appropriation |
8 | | bill shall not be considered by the House until the third |
9 | | calendar day following the day that the bill was received back |
10 | | in the House with one or more amendments added by the Senate. |
11 | | Joint action motions for final action on the order of |
12 | | Non-concurrence regarding an appropriation bill shall not be |
13 | | considered by the House until the third calendar day following |
14 | | the day that the bill was received back in the House with a |
15 | | message requesting the House to recede from one or more of its |
16 | | amendments. Joint action motions for final action on the order |
17 | | of Conference Committee Reports regarding an appropriation |
18 | | bill shall not be considered by the House until the third |
19 | | calendar day following the day that the conference report to |
20 | | which the motion applies was filed with the Clerk. |
21 | | Nothing in this Rule limits consideration of a joint action |
22 | | motion for final action by a committee of the House or a joint |
23 | | committee of the House and Senate. |
24 | | This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote of |
25 | | 71 members elected.
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1 | | (House Rule 102)
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2 | | 102. Definitions. As used in these Rules, terms have
the |
3 | | meanings ascribed to them as follows, unless the
context |
4 | | clearly requires a different meaning:
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5 | | (1) Chairperson. "Chairperson" means that
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6 | | Representative designated by the Speaker to serve as chair |
7 | | of
a committee.
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8 | | (2) Co-Chairperson. "Co-Chairperson" means a |
9 | | Representative
designated by the Speaker to serve as |
10 | | co-chair of a standing or special committee.
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11 | | (3) Clerk. "Clerk" means the elected Clerk of the
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12 | | House.
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13 | | (4) Committee. "Committee" means a committee of the
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14 | | House and includes a standing committee, the Rules |
15 | | Committee,
a special committee, committees created
under |
16 | | Article X and Article XII of these Rules, and a
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17 | | subcommittee of a committee. "Committee" does not mean a |
18 | | conference
committee, and the procedural and notice |
19 | | requirements
applicable to committees do not apply to |
20 | | conference
committees.
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21 | | (5) Constitution. "Constitution" means the
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22 | | Constitution of the State of Illinois.
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23 | | (6) General Assembly. "General Assembly" means the
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24 | | current General Assembly of the State of Illinois.
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25 | | (7) House. "House" means the House of Representatives
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1 | | of the General Assembly.
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2 | | (8) Joint Action Motions. "Joint action motions"
means |
3 | | the following motions before the House:
to concur in a |
4 | | Senate amendment, to non-concur in a Senate
amendment, to |
5 | | recede from a House amendment, to refuse to
recede from a |
6 | | House amendment, to request that a conference
committee be |
7 | | appointed, and to adopt a conference committee
report.
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8 | | (8.5) Joint Action Motions for Final Action. "Joint |
9 | | action motions for final action" means the following |
10 | | motions before the House: to concur in a Senate amendment, |
11 | | to recede from a House amendment, and to adopt a conference |
12 | | committee report.
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13 | | (9) Legislative Digest. "Legislative Digest" means the
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14 | | Legislative Synopsis and Digest that is prepared by the
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15 | | Legislative Reference Bureau of the General Assembly.
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16 | | (10) Legislative Measures. "Legislative measures" |
17 | | means
all matters brought before the House for |
18 | | consideration,
whether originated in the House or Senate, |
19 | | and includes
bills, amendments, resolutions, conference |
20 | | committee reports,
motions, messages, notices, and |
21 | | Executive Orders from the
executive branch.
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22 | | (11) Majority. "Majority" means a majority of those
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23 | | members present and voting on a question. Unless otherwise
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24 | | specified with respect to a particular House Rule, for
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25 | | purposes of determining the number of members present and
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26 | | voting on a question, a "present" vote shall not be |
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2 | | (12) Majority Caucus. "Majority caucus" means that
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3 | | group of Representatives from the numerically strongest
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4 | | political party in the House.
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5 | | (13) Majority of those Appointed. "Majority of those
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6 | | appointed" means a majority of the total number of
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7 | | Representatives authorized under these Rules to be |
8 | | appointed to a committee.
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9 | | (14) Majority of those Elected. "Majority of those
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10 | | elected" means a majority of the total number of
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11 | | Representatives entitled to be elected to the House,
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12 | | regardless of the number of elected or appointed
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13 | | Representatives actually serving in office. So long as 118
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14 | | Representatives are entitled to be elected to the House,
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15 | | "majority of those elected" means 60 affirmative votes;
71 |
16 | | affirmative votes means three-fifths of the
members |
17 | | elected; and 79 affirmative votes means two-thirds of the
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18 | | members elected.
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19 | | (15) Member. "Member" means a Representative. Where
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20 | | the context so requires, "member" may also mean a Senator |
21 | | of
the Illinois Senate.
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22 | | (16) Members Appointed. "Members appointed" means the
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23 | | total number of Representatives authorized under these |
24 | | Rules to be appointed to
a committee.
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25 | | (17) Members Elected. "Members elected" means the 118
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26 | | Representatives entitled to be elected to the House,
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1 | | regardless of the number of elected or appointed
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2 | | Representatives actually serving in office.
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3 | | (18) Minority Caucus. "Minority caucus" means that
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4 | | group of Representatives from the second numerically
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5 | | strongest political party in the House.
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6 | | (19) Minority Leader. "Minority Leader" means the
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7 | | Minority Leader of the House elected under Rule 2.
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8 | | (20) Minority Spokesperson. "Minority spokesperson"
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9 | | means that Representative designated by the Minority |
10 | | Leader
to serve as the minority spokesperson of a |
11 | | committee.
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12 | | (21) Perfunctory Session. "Perfunctory session" means
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13 | | the convening of the House, pursuant to the scheduling of |
14 | | the
Speaker, for purposes consistent with Rule 28.
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15 | | (22) Presiding Officer. "Presiding Officer" means that
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16 | | Representative serving as the presiding officer of the |
17 | | House,
whether that Representative is the Speaker or |
18 | | another
Representative designated by the Speaker under |
19 | | Rule 4.
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20 | | (23) Principal Sponsor. "Principal sponsor" means the
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21 | | first listed House sponsor of any legislative measure; with
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22 | | respect to a committee-sponsored bill or resolution, it |
23 | | means
the Chairperson of the committee or the |
24 | | Co-Chairperson from the majority caucus.
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25 | | (24) Record Vote. "Record vote" means a vote by ayes
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26 | | and nays entered on the journal.
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1 | | (25) Representative. "Representative" means any duly
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2 | | elected or duly appointed Illinois State Representative, |
3 | | and
means the same as "member".
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4 | | (26) Senate. "Senate" means the Senate of the General
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5 | | Assembly.
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6 | | (27) Speaker. "Speaker" means the Speaker of the
House |
7 | | elected as provided in Rule 1.
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8 | | (28) Term. "Term" means the 2-year term of a General
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9 | | Assembly.
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10 | | (29) Vice-Chairperson. "Vice-Chairperson" means that
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11 | | Representative designated by the Speaker to serve as
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12 | | Vice-Chairperson of a committee.
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