House Concurrent Resolution 8 - Introduced
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 8
BY COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND RULES
(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 209)
(COMPANION TO SCR 4 BY WHITVER)
1 A Concurrent Resolution relating to joint rules of
2 the Senate and House of Representatives for the
3 Ninetieth General Assembly.
4 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
5 SENATE CONCURRING, That the joint rules of the Senate
6 and House of Representatives for the Eighty-ninth
7 Ninetieth General Assembly shall be:
8 JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE
9 Rule 1
10 Suspension of Joint Rules
11 The joint rules of the general assembly may be
12 suspended by concurrent resolution, duly adopted by a
13 constitutional majority of the senate and the house.
14 Rule 2
15 Designation of Sessions
16 Each regular session of a general assembly shall be
17 designated by the year in which such regular session
18 commences.
19 Rule 3
20 Sessions of a General Assembly
21 The election of officers, organization, hiring and
22 compensation of employees, and standing committees in
23 each house of the general assembly and action taken
24 by each house shall carry over from the first to the
25 second regular session and to any extraordinary session
26 of the same general assembly. The status of each
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1 bill and resolution shall be the same at the beginning
2 of each second session as it was immediately before
3 adjournment of the previous regular or extraordinary
4 session; however the rules of either house may provide
5 for re-referral of some or all bills and resolutions
6 to standing committees upon adjournment of each
7 session or at the beginning of a subsequent regular or
8 extraordinary session, except those which have been
9 adopted by both houses in different forms.
10 Upon final adoption of a concurrent resolution at
11 any extraordinary session affecting that session, or at
12 a regular session affecting any extraordinary session
13 which may be held before the next regular session,
14 the creation of any calendar by either house shall be
15 suspended and the business of the session shall consist
16 solely of those bills or subject matters stated in the
17 resolution adopted. Bills named in the resolution, or
18 bills containing the subject matter provided for in the
19 resolution, may, at any time, be called up for debate
20 in either house by the majority leader of that house.
21 Rule 3A
22 International Relations Protocol
23 The senate and the house of representatives shall
24 comply with the international relations protocol policy
25 adopted by the international relations committee of the
26 legislative council.
27 Rule 4
28 Presentation of Messages
29 All messages between the two houses shall be sent
30 and accepted, as soon as practicable, by the secretary
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1 of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of
2 representatives. The messages shall be communicated
3 to and received by the presiding officer of the other
4 house at the earliest appropriate time when that house
5 is in session.
6 Rule 5
7 Printing and Form of Bills and Other Documents
8 Bills and joint resolutions shall be introduced,
9 numbered, prepared, and printed as provided by
10 law, or in the absence of such law, in a manner
11 determined by the secretary of the senate and the
12 chief clerk of the house of representatives. Proposed
13 bills and resolutions which are not introduced but
14 are referred to committee shall be tracked in the
15 legislative computer system as are introduced bills
16 and resolutions. The referral of proposed bills
17 and resolutions to committee shall be entered in the
18 journal.
19 All bills and joint resolutions introduced shall be
20 in a form and number approved by the secretary of the
21 senate and chief clerk of the house.
22 The legal counsel’s office of each house shall
23 approve all bills before introduction.
24 Rule 6
25 Companion Bills
26 Identical bills introduced in one or both houses
27 shall be called companion bills. Each house shall
28 designate the sponsor in the usual way followed in
29 parentheses by the sponsor of any companion bill or
30 bills in the other house. The house where a companion
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1 bill is first introduced shall print the complete text.
2 Rule 7
3 Reprinting of Bills
4 Whenever any bill has been substantially amended by
5 either house, the secretary of the senate or the chief
6 clerk of the house shall order the bill reprinted on
7 paper of a different color. All adopted amendments
8 shall be distinguishable.
9 The secretary of the senate or the chief clerk
10 of the house may order the printing of a reasonable
11 number of additional copies of any bill, resolution,
12 amendment, or journal.
13 Rule 8
14 Daily Clip Sheet
15 The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of
16 the house shall prepare a daily clip sheet covering all
17 amendments filed.
18 Rule 9
19 Reintroduction of Bills and Other Measures
20 A bill or resolution which has passed one house and
21 is rejected in the other shall not be introduced again
22 during that general assembly.
23 Rule 10
24 Certification of Bills and Other Enrollments
25 When any bill or resolution which has passed one
26 house is rejected or adopted in the other, notice of
27 such action and the date thereof shall be given to the
28 house of origin in writing signed by the secretary of
29 the senate or the chief clerk of the house.
30 Rule 11
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1 Code Editor’s Correction Bills
2 A bill recommended by the Code editor which is
3 passed out of committee to the floor for debate by a
4 committee of the house or senate and which contains
5 Code corrections of a nonsubstantive nature shall
6 not be amended on the floor of either house except
7 pursuant to corrective or nonsubstantive amendments
8 filed by the judiciary committee of the senate or
9 the house. Such committee amendments, whether filed
10 at the time of initial committee passage of the bill
11 to the floor for debate or after rereferral to the
12 committee, shall not be incorporated into the bill in
13 the originating house but shall be filed separately.
14 Amendments filed from the floor to strike sections of
15 the bill or the committee amendments shall be in order.
16 Following amendment and passage by the second house,
17 only amendments filed from the floor which strike
18 sections of the amendment of the second house shall be
19 in order.
20 A bill recommended by the Code editor which is
21 passed out of committee to the floor for debate by a
22 committee of the house or senate and which contains
23 Code corrections beyond those of a nonsubstantive
24 nature shall not be amended on the floor of either
25 house except pursuant to amendments filed by the
26 judiciary committee of the senate or the house. Such
27 committee amendments, whether filed at the time of
28 initial committee passage of the bill to the floor for
29 debate or after rereferral to the committee, shall
30 not be incorporated into the bill in the originating
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1 house but shall be filed separately. Such a bill shall
2 be limited to corrections which: Adjust language to
3 reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions,
4 delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary
5 language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts,
6 update ongoing provisions, and remove ambiguities.
7 Amendments filed from the floor to strike sections of
8 the bill or the committee amendments shall be in order.
9 Following amendment and passage by the second house,
10 only amendments filed from the floor which strike
11 sections of the amendment of the second house shall be
12 in order.
13 It is the intent of the house and the senate that
14 such bills be passed out of committee to the floor for
15 debate within the first four weeks of convening of a
16 legislative session.
17 Rule 12
18 Amendments by Other House
19 1. When a bill which originated in one house is
20 amended in the other house, the house originating
21 the bill may amend the amendment, concur in full in
22 the amendment, or refuse to concur in full in the
23 amendment. Precedence of motions shall be in that
24 order. The amendment of the other house shall not be
25 ruled out of order based on a question of germaneness.
26 a. If the house originating the bill concurs in the
27 amendment, the bill shall then be immediately placed
28 upon its final passage.
29 b. If the house originating the bill refuses to
30 concur in the amendment, the bill shall be returned to
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1 the amending house which shall either:
2 (1) Recede, after which the bill shall be read for
3 the last time and immediately placed upon its final
4 passage; or
5 (2) Insist, which will send the bill to a
6 conference committee.
7 c. If the house originating the bill amends the
8 amendment, that house shall concur in the amendment
9 as amended and the bill shall be immediately placed
10 on final passage, and shall be returned to the other
11 house. The other house cannot further amend the bill.
12 (1) If the amending house which gave second
13 consideration to the bill concurs in the amendment
14 to the amendment, the bill shall then be immediately
15 placed upon its final passage.
16 (2) If the amending house refuses to concur in the
17 amendment to the amendment, the bill shall be returned
18 to the house originating the bill which shall either:
19 (a) Recede, after which the bill shall be read for
20 the last time as amended and immediately placed upon
21 its final passage; or
22 (b) Insist, which will send the bill to a
23 conference committee.
24 2. A motion to recede has precedence over a motion
25 to insist. Failure to recede means to insist; and
26 failure to insist means to recede.
27 3. A motion to lay on the table or to indefinitely
28 postpone shall be out of order with respect to motions
29 to recede from or insist upon and to amendments to
30 bills which have passed both houses.
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1 4. A motion to concur, refuse to concur, recede,
2 insist, or adopt a conference committee report is in
3 order even though the subject matter has previously
4 been acted upon.
5 Rule 13
6 Conference Committee
7 1. Within one legislative day after either house
8 insists upon an amendment to a bill, the presiding
9 officer of the house, after consultation with the
10 majority leader, shall appoint three majority party
11 members and, after consultation with the minority
12 leader, shall appoint two minority party members
13 to a conference committee. The majority leader of
14 the senate, after consultation with the president,
15 shall appoint three majority party members and,
16 after consultation with and approval by the minority
17 leader, shall appoint two minority party members to a
18 conference committee. The papers shall remain with the
19 house that originated the bill.
20 2. The conference committee shall meet before
21 the end of the next legislative day after their
22 appointment, shall select a chair and shall discuss the
23 controversy.
24 3. The authority of the first conference committee
25 shall cover only issues related to provisions of the
26 bill and amendments to the bill which were adopted
27 by either the senate or the house of representatives
28 and on which the senate and house of representatives
29 differed. If a conference committee report is not
30 acted upon because such action would violate this
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1 subsection of this rule, the inaction on the report
2 shall constitute refusal to adopt the conference
3 committee report and shall have the same effect as if
4 the conference committee had disagreed.
5 4. An agreement on recommendations must be approved
6 by a majority of the committee members from each house.
7 The committee shall submit two originals of the report
8 signed by a majority of the committee members of each
9 house with one signed original and three copies to be
10 submitted to each house. The report shall first be
11 acted upon in the house originating the bill. Such
12 action, including all papers, shall be immediately
13 referred by the secretary of the senate or the chief
14 clerk of the house of representatives to the other
15 house.
16 5. The report of agreement is debatable, but
17 cannot be amended. If the report contains recommended
18 amendments to the bill, adoption of the report shall
19 automatically adopt all amendments contained therein.
20 After the report is adopted, there shall be no more
21 debate, and the bill shall immediately be placed upon
22 its final passage.
23 6. Refusal of either house to adopt the conference
24 committee report has the same effect as if the
25 committee had disagreed.
26 7. If the conference committee fails to reach
27 agreement, a report of such failure signed by a
28 majority of the committee members of each house shall
29 be given promptly to each house. The bill shall
30 be returned to the house that originated the bill,
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1 the members of the committee shall be immediately
2 discharged, and a new conference committee appointed in
3 the same manner as the first conference committee.
4 8. The authority of a second or subsequent
5 conference committee shall cover free conference during
6 which the committee has authority to propose amendments
7 to any portion of a bill provided the amendment is
8 within the subject matter content of the bill as passed
9 by the house of origin or as amended by the second
10 house.
11 Rule 14
12 Enrollment and Authentication of Bills
13 A bill or resolution which has passed both houses
14 shall be enrolled in the house of origin under the
15 direction of either the secretary of the senate or the
16 chief clerk of the house and its house of origin shall
17 be certified by the endorsement of the secretary of the
18 senate or the chief clerk of the house.
19 After enrollment, each bill shall be signed by the
20 president of the senate and by the speaker of the
21 house.
22 Rule 15
23 Concerning Other Enrollments
24 All resolutions and other matters which are to
25 be presented to the governor for approval shall be
26 enrolled, signed, and presented in the same manner as
27 bills.
28 All resolutions and other matters which are not to
29 be presented to the governor or the secretary of state
30 shall be enrolled, signed, and retained permanently
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1 by the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the
2 house.
3 Rule 16
4 Transmission of Bills to the Governor
5 After a bill has been signed in each house, it shall
6 be presented by the house of origin to the governor by
7 either the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk
8 of the house. The secretary or the chief clerk shall
9 report the date of the presentation, which shall be
10 entered upon the journal of the house of origin.
11 Rule 17
12 Fiscal Notes
13 A fiscal note shall be attached to an