Bill Text: CA AR27 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Resolution 27 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relative to Assembly Rule 114.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-09 - Introduced. [AR27 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AR27-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

House Resolution

No. 27

Introduced by Assembly Member Gray

March 09, 2017

Relative to Assembly Rule 114.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

HR 27, as introduced, Gray.

Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That Rule 114 of the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2017–18 Regular Session is amended to read:

Members Called to Order for Transgressing Rules

114. (a) (1) If any Member transgresses the Rules of the Assembly, the Speaker shall, or any Member may, call the offending Member to order. The Member so called to order immediately shall take his or her seat, until the Speaker, without debate, has determined whether the Member is in order. That decision by the Speaker shall be subject to an appeal to the Assembly.

(2) The Speaker may order the removal of a Member from the Assembly Chamber only upon a two-thirds vote of the Members of the Assembly.
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(b) If any Member is called to order for offensive words spoken in debate, the person calling him or her to order shall state to the Assembly the words to which exception is taken. No Member may be held to answer, or be subject to censure by the Assembly, for language used in debate if other business has been transacted by the Assembly prior to exception being taken to the words spoken.