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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE RESOLUTION 1571

2     AMENDMENT NO. ___. Amend House Resolution 1571, on page 1,
3 line 4, after "16,", by inserting "18,"; and
 
4 on page 12, immediately below line 28, by inserting the
5 following:
 
6     "(House Rule 18)
7     18. Referrals to Committees.
8     (a) All House Bills and Senate Bills, after being initially
9 read by the Clerk, are automatically referred to the Rules
10 Committee.
11     (b) During odd-numbered years, the Rules Committee shall
12 thereafter refer any such bill before it, and which has a
13 Principal Sponsor, to a standing committee or a special
14 committee within 3 legislative days. During even-numbered
15 years, the Rules Committee shall refer to a standing committee
16 or a special committee only appropriation bills implementing
17 the budget and bills deemed by the Rules Committee, by the
18 affirmative vote of a majority appointed, to be of an emergency
19 nature or to be of substantial importance to the operation of
20 government. This subsection (b) applies equally to House Bills
21 and Senate Bills introduced into or received by the House.
22     (c) A standing committee or a special committee may refer a
23 subject matter or a legislative measure pending in that
24 committee to a subcommittee of that committee.

 

 

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1     (d) All legislative measures favorably reported by a
2 standing committee or a special committee, or discharged from a
3 standing committee or a special committee under Rule 58, shall
4 be referred to the House and placed on the appropriate order of
5 business, which shall appear on the daily calendar. All
6 legislative measures, except bills or resolutions on the
7 Consent Calendar, bills or resolutions assigned short debate
8 status by a standing committee or special committee, and floor
9 amendments, so referred are automatically assigned standard
10 debate status, subject to Rule 52.
11     (e) All floor amendments, joint action motions for final
12 action, conference committee reports, and motions to table
13 committee amendments, upon filing with the Clerk, are
14 automatically referred to the Rules Committee. The Rules
15 Committee may refer any floor amendment, joint action motion
16 for final action, conference committee report, or motion to
17 table a committee amendment to the House or to a standing
18 committee or a special committee for its review and
19 consideration (in those instances, and notwithstanding any
20 other provision of these Rules, the standing committee or
21 special committee may hold a hearing on and consider those
22 legislative measures pursuant to a one-hour advance notice).
23 Any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action,
24 conference committee report, or motion to table a committee
25 amendment that is not referred to the House by the Rules
26 Committee is out of order, except that any floor amendment,
27 joint action motion for final action, conference committee
28 report, or motion to table a committee amendment favorably
29 approved by a standing committee or a special committee is
30 deemed referred to the House by the Rules Committee for
31 purposes of this Rule. All joint action motions for final
32 action, conference committee reports and motions to table
33 committee amendments so referred are automatically assigned
34 standard debate status, subject to Rule 52. Floor amendments

 

 

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1 referred to the House under this Rule are automatically
2 assigned amendment debate status.
3     (f) The Rules Committee may at any time refer or re-refer a
4 legislative measure from a committee to a Committee of the
5 Whole or to any other committee.
6     (g) Legislative measures may be discharged from the Rules
7 Committee upon the affirmative vote of 71 members elected only
8 by unanimous consent of the House. Any bill discharged from the
9 Rules Committee shall be placed on the order of Second Reading
10 and assigned standard debate status, subject to Rule 52.
11     (h) Except for those provisions that require unanimous
12 consent, this Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative
13 vote of 71 members elected.
14 (Source: H.R. 22, 94th G.A.)".