Bill Text: IL HR0594 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends House Rules 10 and 18. Authorizes each Representative to designate up to 5 bills as member-sponsored initiatives by filing with the Clerk of the House a written motion to have the bill recognized as a member-sponsored initiative and referred to the standing committee or special committee requested in the motion. Provides that any bill that is designated as a member-sponsored initiative by written motion shall be immediately discharged and referred to the standing committee or special committee designated in the motion notwithstanding any other provision of the House Rules. Requires the Chairperson of a committee to order a hearing to be held and a record vote to be taken on each bill that is referred to the committee as a member-sponsored initiative. Prohibits these rules from being suspended.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-06 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0594 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HR0594-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
3HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
4the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 103rd General
5Assembly are amended by changing Rules 10 and 18 as follows:
6 (House Rule 10)
7 10. Committees.
8 (a) The committees of the House are: (i) the standing
9committees listed in Rule 11; (ii) the special committees
10created under Rule 13; (iii) any subcommittees created under
11these Rules; (iv) the Rules Committee created under Rule 15;
12(v) any committees created under Article X or Article XII; and
13(vi) any Committee of the Whole. Committees of the Whole shall
14consist of all Representatives.
15 (b) Except as otherwise provided in this Rule and subject
16to Rules 12 and 13, all committees shall have a Chairperson and
17Minority Spokesperson, who may be of the same political party.
18A Minority Spokesperson may not be appointed until after a
19Chairperson has been appointed. Standing committees that have
20Co-Chairpersons from different political parties shall not
21have a Minority Spokesperson. Special committees that have
22Co-Chairpersons from different political parties shall not
23have a Minority Spokesperson. No member may be appointed to

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1serve as a Chairperson, Minority Spokesperson, or
2Co-Chairperson of any committee unless the member is serving
3in at least his or her third term as a member of the General
4Assembly, including any terms in which the member was
5appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of Representative or
6Senator. Each committee may have a Vice-Chairperson appointed
7by the Speaker. The number of majority caucus members and
8minority caucus members of all committees, except the Rules
9Committee created under Rule 15 and as otherwise provided by
10these Rules, shall be determined by the Speaker. The Speaker
11shall file a notice with the Clerk setting forth the number of
12majority caucus and minority caucus members of each committee,
13which shall be journalized. A member may be temporarily
14replaced on a committee if the member is otherwise
15unavailable. The appointment of a member as a temporary
16replacement shall remain in effect until (i) the permanent
17member who was replaced is in attendance at the hearing and has
18been added to the committee roll, (ii) the appointing
19authority withdraws the temporary replacement appointment or
20appoints a different member to serve as the temporary
21replacement, or (iii) the hearing is adjourned or the
22authority has expired for a re-convened hearing following a
23recess of the committee, whichever occurs first. All leaders
24are non-voting ex-officio members of each standing committee
25and each special committee, except that the leaders may also
26be appointed to standing committees or special committees as

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1voting members. The Speaker may also appoint any member of the
2majority caucus, and the Minority Leader may appoint any
3member of the minority caucus, as a non-voting member of any
4standing committee or special committee.
5 (c) The Chairperson of a committee has the authority to
6call the committee to order, designate which legislative
7measures and subject matters posted for hearing shall be taken
8up and in what order, order a record vote to be taken on each
9legislative measure called for a vote, preserve order and
10decorum during committee meetings, establish procedural rules
11(subject to approval by the Speaker) governing the
12presentation and consideration of legislative measures and
13subject matters, and generally supervise the affairs of the
14committee. Any such procedural rules must be filed with the
15Clerk and copies provided to all members of the committee. The
16Vice-Chairperson of a committee or other member of the
17committee from the majority caucus may preside over its
18meetings in the absence or at the direction of the
19Chairperson. In the case of standing or special committees
20with Co-Chairpersons from different political parties, the
21"Chairperson" for purposes of this Rule is the Co-Chairperson
22from the majority caucus.
23 (c-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Rules,
24the Chairperson of a committee shall order a hearing to be held
25and a record vote to be taken on each bill that is referred to
26the committee as a member-sponsored initiative under Rule 18.

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1This subsection (c-5) may not be suspended.
2 (d) A vacancy on a committee, or in the position of
3Chairperson, Co-Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, or Minority
4Spokesperson on a committee, exists when a member resigns from
5the position, ceases to be a Representative, or changes
6political party affiliation. Resignations and notices of a
7change in political party affiliation shall be made in writing
8to the Clerk, who shall promptly notify the Speaker and
9Minority Leader. Replacement members shall be of the same
10political party as that of the member who resigns, and shall be
11appointed in the same manner as the original appointment,
12except that in the case of a vacancy in the position of
13Chairperson or Co-Chairperson, the replacement member need not
14be from the same political party. The Speaker or Minority
15Leader may appoint a temporary replacement to fill a vacancy
16until such time as a permanent member has been appointed. In
17the case of vacancies on subcommittees, the parent committee
18shall fill the vacancy in the same manner as the original
19appointment.
20 (e) The Chairperson of a committee has the authority to
21call meetings of that committee, subject to the approval of
22the Speaker. In the case of standing or special committees
23with Co-Chairpersons from different political parties, the
24Co-Chairperson from the majority caucus has the authority to
25call meetings of the special committee, subject to the
26approval of the Speaker. Except as otherwise provided by these

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1Rules, committee meetings shall be convened in accordance with
2Rule 21.
3 (f) Except for those provisions that may not be suspended,
4this This Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative vote of
571 members elected.
6(Source: H.R. 36, 103rd G.A.)
7 (House Rule 18)
8 18. Referrals to Committees.
9 (a) All House bills and Senate bills, after being
10initially read by the Clerk, are automatically referred to the
11Rules Committee.
12 (b) The Rules Committee may refer any such bill before it
13to a standing committee or a special committee. During
14even-numbered years, the Rules Committee shall refer to a
15standing committee or a special committee only appropriation
16bills implementing the budget and bills deemed by the Rules
17Committee, by the affirmative vote of a majority of those
18appointed, to be of an emergency nature or to be of substantial
19importance to the operation of government. This subsection (b)
20applies equally to House Bills and Senate Bills introduced
21into or received by the House.
22 (b-5) Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Rules Committee
23may refer any legislative measure to a joint committee of the
24House and Senate created by joint resolution. That joint

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1committee shall report back to the Rules Committee any
2recommendation for action made by that joint committee. The
3Rules Committee may, at any time, however, refer the
4legislative measure to a standing or special committee of the
5House.
6 (c) The Chairperson of a standing committee or a special
7committee may refer a subject matter or a legislative measure
8pending in that committee to a subcommittee of that committee,
9regardless of whether the subject matter or legislative
10measure has been posted for hearing.
11 (d) All legislative measures favorably reported by a
12standing committee or a special committee, or discharged from
13a standing committee or a special committee under Rule 58,
14shall be referred to the House and placed on the appropriate
15order of business, which shall appear on the Daily Calendar.
16 (e) All committee amendments, floor amendments, joint
17action motions for final action, conference committee reports,
18and motions to table committee amendments, upon filing with
19the Clerk, are automatically referred to the Rules Committee.
20The Rules Committee may refer any committee amendment to the
21standing committee or the special committee to which the bill
22or resolution it amends has been referred for its review and
23consideration. The Rules Committee may refer any floor
24amendment, joint action motion for final action, conference
25committee report, or motion to table a committee amendment to
26the House or to a standing committee or a special committee for

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1its review and consideration. Any floor amendment, joint
2action motion for final action, conference committee report,
3or motion to table a committee amendment that is not referred
4to the House by, or discharged from, the Rules Committee is out
5of order, except that any floor amendment, joint action motion
6for final action, conference committee report, or motion to
7table a committee amendment favorably reported by, or
8discharged from, a standing committee or a special committee
9is deemed referred to the House by the Rules Committee for
10purposes of this Rule.
11 (f) The Rules Committee may at any time refer or re-refer a
12legislative measure from a committee to a Committee of the
13Whole or to any other committee. If a bill or resolution is
14re-referred from a standing or special committee to a
15Committee of the Whole or to any other committee pursuant to
16this Rule, any committee amendments pending in the standing or
17special committee shall be automatically re-referred with the
18bill or resolution.
19 (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Rules,
20any bill pending before the Rules Committee shall be
21immediately discharged and referred to a standing committee,
22special committee, or order of the Daily Calendar, as provided
23in this Rule, if the Principal Sponsor of the bill files a
24motion that is signed by no less than three-fifths of the
25members of both the majority and minority caucuses, provided
26each member signing the motion is a sponsor of the underlying

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1bill subject to the motion and the motion specifies the
2appropriate standing committee, special committee, or order on
3the Daily Calendar to which the bill shall be referred. Such a
4motion shall be filed, in writing, with the Clerk. All other
5legislative measures may be discharged from the Rules
6Committee only by unanimous consent of the House. A bill or
7resolution discharged from the Rules Committee shall be
8referred as follows: (i) a bill or resolution that was not
9previously referred shall be referred to the standing
10committee or special committee designated on the motion,
11subject to the notice requirement of Rule 21; (ii) a bill or
12resolution re-referred to the Rules Committee from a standing
13committee or special committee shall be re-referred to that
14committee, subject to the notice requirement of Rule 21; and
15(iii) a bill or resolution re-referred to the Rules Committee
16from an order of business on the Daily Calendar shall be
17re-referred to the same order of business, provided the bill
18or resolution shall be carried on the Daily Calendar for at
19least one legislative day prior to consideration by the House.
20Legislative measures, other than bills or resolutions, that
21are discharged from the Rules Committee shall be referred as
22follows: (i) an amendment, joint action motion for final
23action, or conference committee report shall be referred to
24the committee that considered the underlying bill or
25resolution and (ii) any other legislative measure shall be
26referred to the proper order of business on the Daily

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