House Concurrent Resolution 10 - Introduced
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 10
BY COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND RULES
(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 211)
1 A Concurrent Resolution relating to joint rules of
2 the Senate and House of Representatives for the
3 Eighty-ninth 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-eighth
7 Eighty-ninth 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
27 bill and resolution shall be the same at the beginning
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1 of each second session as it was immediately before
2 adjournment of the previous regular or extraordinary
3 session; however the rules of either house may provide
4 for re-referral of some or all bills and resolutions
5 to standing committees upon adjournment of each
6 session or at the beginning of a subsequent regular or
7 extraordinary session, except those which have been
8 adopted by both houses in different forms.
9 Upon final adoption of a concurrent resolution at
10 any extraordinary session affecting that session, or at
11 a regular session affecting any extraordinary session
12 which may be held before the next regular session,
13 the creation of any calendar by either house shall be
14 suspended and the business of the session shall consist
15 solely of those bills or subject matters stated in the
16 resolution adopted. Bills named in the resolution, or
17 bills containing the subject matter provided for in the
18 resolution, may, at any time, be called up for debate
19 in either house by the majority leader of that house.
20 Rule 3A
21 International Relations Protocol
22 The senate and the house of representatives shall
23 comply with the international relations protocol policy
24 adopted by the international relations committee of the
25 legislative council.
26 Rule 4
27 Presentation of Messages
28 All messages between the two houses shall be sent
29 and accepted, as soon as practicable, by the secretary
30 of the senate and the chief clerk of the house of
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1 representatives. The messages shall be communicated
2 to and received by the presiding officer of the other
3 house at the earliest appropriate time when that house
4 is in session.
5 Rule 5
6 Printing and Form of Bills and Other Documents
7 Bills and joint resolutions shall be introduced,
8 numbered, prepared, and printed as provided by
9 law, or in the absence of such law, in a manner
10 determined by the secretary of the senate and the
11 chief clerk of the house of representatives. Proposed
12 bills and resolutions which are not introduced but
13 are referred to committee shall be tracked in the
14 legislative computer system as are introduced bills
15 and resolutions. The referral of proposed bills
16 and resolutions to committee shall be entered in the
17 journal.
18 All bills and joint resolutions introduced shall be
19 in a form and number approved by the secretary of the
20 senate and chief clerk of the house.
21 The legal counsel’s office of each house shall
22 approve all bills before introduction.
23 Rule 6
24 Companion Bills
25 Identical bills introduced in one or both houses
26 shall be called companion bills. Each house shall
27 designate the sponsor in the usual way followed in
28 parentheses by the sponsor of any companion bill or
29 bills in the other house. The house where a companion
30 bill is first introduced shall print the complete text.
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1 Rule 7
2 Reprinting of Bills
3 Whenever any bill has been substantially amended by
4 either house, the secretary of the senate or the chief
5 clerk of the house shall order the bill reprinted on
6 paper of a different color. All adopted amendments
7 shall be distinguishable.
8 The secretary of the senate or the chief clerk
9 of the house may order the printing of a reasonable
10 number of additional copies of any bill, resolution,
11 amendment, or journal.
12 Rule 8
13 Daily Clip Sheet
14 The secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of
15 the house shall prepare a daily clip sheet covering all
16 amendments filed.
17 Rule 9
18 Reintroduction of Bills and Other Measures
19 A bill or resolution which has passed one house and
20 is rejected in the other shall not be introduced again
21 during that general assembly.
22 Rule 10
23 Certification of Bills and Other Enrollments
24 When any bill or resolution which has passed one
25 house is rejected or adopted in the other, notice of
26 such action and the date thereof shall be given to the
27 house of origin in writing signed by the secretary of
28 the senate or the chief clerk of the house.
29 Rule 11
30 Code Editor’s Correction Bills
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1 A bill recommended by the Code editor which is
2 passed out of committee to the floor for debate by a
3 committee of the house or senate and which contains
4 Code corrections of a nonsubstantive nature shall
5 not be amended on the floor of either house except
6 pursuant to corrective or nonsubstantive amendments
7 filed by the judiciary committee of the senate or
8 the house. Such committee amendments, whether filed
9 at the time of initial committee passage of the bill
10 to the floor for debate or after rereferral to the
11 committee, shall not be incorporated into the bill in
12 the originating house but shall be filed separately.
13 Amendments filed from the floor to strike sections of
14 the bill or the committee amendments shall be in order.
15 Following amendment and passage by the second house,
16 only amendments filed from the floor which strike
17 sections of the amendment of the second house shall be
18 in order.
19 A bill recommended by the Code editor which is
20 passed out of committee to the floor for debate by a
21 committee of the house or senate and which contains
22 Code corrections beyond those of a nonsubstantive
23 nature shall not be amended on the floor of either
24 house except pursuant to amendments filed by the
25 judiciary committee of the senate or the house. Such
26 committee amendments, whether filed at the time of
27 initial committee passage of the bill to the floor for
28 debate or after rereferral to the committee, shall
29 not be incorporated into the bill in the originating
30 house but shall be filed separately. Such a bill shall
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1 be limited to corrections which: Adjust language to
2 reflect current practices, insert earlier omissions,
3 delete redundancies and inaccuracies, delete temporary
4 language, resolve inconsistencies and conflicts,
5 update ongoing provisions, and remove ambiguities.
6 Amendments filed from the floor to strike sections of
7 the bill or the committee amendments shall be in order.
8 Following amendment and passage by the second house,
9 only amendments filed from the floor which strike
10 sections of the amendment of the second house shall be
11 in order.
12 It is the intent of the house and the senate that
13 such bills be passed out of committee to the floor for
14 debate within the first four weeks of convening of a
15 legislative session.
16 Rule 12
17 Amendments by Other House
18 1. When a bill which originated in one house is
19 amended in the other house, the house originating
20 the bill may amend the amendment, concur in full in
21 the amendment, or refuse to concur in full in the
22 amendment. Precedence of motions shall be in that
23 order. The amendment of the other house shall not be
24 ruled out of order based on a question of germaneness.
25 a. If the house originating the bill concurs in the
26 amendment, the bill shall then be immediately placed
27 upon its final passage.
28 b. If the house originating the bill refuses to
29 concur in the amendment, the bill shall be returned to
30 the amending house which shall either:
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1 (1) Recede, after which the bill shall be read for
2 the last time and immediately placed upon its final
3 passage; or
4 (2) Insist, which will send the bill to a
5 conference committee.
6 c. If the house originating the bill amends the
7 amendment, that house shall concur in the amendment
8 as amended and the bill shall be immediately placed
9 on final passage, and shall be returned to the other
10 house. The other house cannot further amend the bill.
11 (1) If the amending house which gave second
12 consideration to the bill concurs in the amendment
13 to the amendment, the bill shall then be immediately
14 placed upon its final passage.
15 (2) If the amending house refuses to concur in the
16 amendment to the amendment, the bill shall be returned
17 to the house originating the bill which shall either:
18 (a) Recede, after which the bill shall be read for
19 the last time as amended and immediately placed upon
20 its final passage; or
21 (b) Insist, which will send the bill to a
22 conference committee.
23 2. A motion to recede has precedence over a motion
24 to insist. Failure to recede means to insist; and
25 failure to insist means to recede.
26 3. A motion to lay on the table or to indefinitely
27 postpone shall be out of order with respect to motions
28 to recede from or insist upon and to amendments to
29 bills which have passed both houses.
30 4. A motion to concur, refuse to concur, recede,
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1 insist, or adopt a conference committee report is in
2 order even though the subject matter has previously
3 been acted upon.
4 Rule 13
5 Conference Committee
6 1. Within one legislative day after either house
7 insists upon an amendment to a bill, the presiding
8 officer of the house, after consultation with the
9 majority leader, shall appoint three majority party
10 members and, after consultation with the minority
11 leader, shall appoint two minority party members
12 to a conference committee. The majority leader of
13 the senate, after consultation with the president,
14 shall appoint three majority party members and,
15 after consultation with and approval by the minority
16 leader, shall appoint two minority party members to a
17 conference committee. The papers shall remain with the
18 house that originated the bill.
19 2. The conference committee shall meet before
20 the end of the next legislative day after their
21 appointment, shall select a chair and shall discuss the
22 controversy.
23 3. The authority of the first conference committee
24 shall cover only issues related to provisions of the
25 bill and amendments to the bill which were adopted
26 by either the senate or the house of representatives
27 and on which the senate and house of representatives
28 differed. If a conference committee report is not
29 acted upon because such action would violate this
30 subsection of this rule, the inaction on the report
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1 shall constitute refusal to adopt the conference
2 committee report and shall have the same effect as if
3 the conference committee had disagreed.
4 4. An agreement on recommendations must be approved
5 by a majority of the committee members from each house.
6 The committee shall submit two originals of the report
7 signed by a majority of the committee members of each
8 house with one signed original and three copies to be
9 submitted to each house. The report shall first be
10 acted upon in the house originating the bill. Such
11 action, including all papers, shall be immediately
12 referred by the secretary of the senate or the chief
13 clerk of the house of representatives to the other
14 house.
15 5. The report of agreement is debatable, but
16 cannot be amended. If the report contains recommended
17 amendments to the bill, adoption of the report shall
18 automatically adopt all amendments contained therein.
19 After the report is adopted, there shall be no more
20 debate, and the bill shall immediately be placed upon
21 its final passage.
22 6. Refusal of either house to adopt the conference
23 committee report has the same effect as if the
24 committee had disagreed.
25 7. If the conference committee fails to reach
26 agreement, a report of such failure signed by a
27 majority of the committee members of each house shall
28 be given promptly to each house. The bill shall
29 be returned to the house that originated the bill,
30 the members of the committee shall be immediately
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1 discharged, and a new conference committee appointed in
2 the same manner as the first conference committee.
3 8. The authority of a second or subsequent
4 conference committee shall cover free conference during
5 which the committee has authority to propose amendments
6 to any portion of a bill provided the amendment is
7 within the subject matter content of the bill as passed
8 by the house of origin or as amended by the second
9 house.
10 Rule 14
11 Enrollment and Authentication of Bills
12 A bill or resolution which has passed both houses
13 shall be enrolled in the house of origin under the
14 direction of either the secretary of the senate or the
15 chief clerk of the house and its house of origin shall
16 be certified by the endorsement of the secretary of the
17 senate or the chief clerk of the house.
18 After enrollment, each bill shall be signed by the
19 president of the senate and by the speaker of the
20 house.
21 Rule 15
22 Concerning Other Enrollments
23 All resolutions and other matters which are to
24 be presented to the governor for approval shall be
25 enrolled, signed, and presented in the same manner as
26 bills.
27 All resolutions and other matters which are not to
28 be presented to the governor or the secretary of state
29 shall be enrolled, signed, and retained permanently
30 by the secretary of the senate or chief clerk of the
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1 house.
2 Rule 16
3 Transmission of Bills to the Governor
4 After a bill has been signed in each house, it shall
5 be presented by the house of origin to the governor by
6 either the secretary of the senate or the chief clerk
7 of the house. The secretary or the chief clerk shall
8 report the date of the presentation, which shall be
9 entered upon the journal of the house of origin.
10 Rule 17
11 Fiscal Notes
12 A fiscal note shall be attached to any bill or j