Bill Text: MS HR5 | 2024 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: House Rules; amend Temporary Rules to revise provisions relating to membership on standing committees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-01-05 - Enrolled Bill Signed [HR5 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HR5-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Representative White
House Resolution 5
(As Adopted by House)
A RESOLUTION AMENDING RULE 60 AND RULE 61 OF THE TEMPORARY RULES OF THE HOUSE TO REVISE PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEMBERSHIP ON THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That Rule 60 of the Temporary Rules of the House, as adopted in House Resolution No. 1, 2024 Regular Session, is amended as follows:
60. (1) The following shall be the standing committees of the House:
(a) Rules Committee, as provided for in Rule 11 of these rules;
(b) Management Committee, as provided for in Rule 11A of these rules;
(c) Ethics Committee, as provided for in Rule 63A of these rules;
(d) Committee Number of Members
Accountability, Efficiency and Transparency 11
Agriculture 33
Apportionment and Elections 17
Appropriations A 33
Appropriations B 9
Appropriations C 9
Appropriations D 9
Appropriations E 9
Banking and Financial
Services * * *2921
Business and Commerce 17
Conservation and Water Resources 17
Constitution 9
Corrections 17
County Affairs 19
Drug Policy 15
Education 27
Energy * * *21
Forestry 11
Gaming 19
Housing 7
Insurance * * *21
Interstate Cooperation 7
Judiciary A 25
Judiciary B 25
Local and Private Legislation 7
Marine Resources 11
Medicaid 19
Military Affairs 15
Municipalities 17
Ports, Harbors and Airports 11
Public Health and Human Services 29
Public Property 15
Public Utilities 23
State Affairs 13
Technology 11
Tourism 21
Transportation * * *33
Universities and Colleges 27
Ways and Means 33
Wildlife, Fisheries and
Parks * * *21
Workforce Development * * *21
Youth and Family Affairs 8
(2) No member shall
serve on both the Committee on Ways and Means and * * * any of the
Appropriations Committees. Each member who is not a member of the Committee
on Ways and Means or * * * any of the Appropriations Committees shall
serve on at least four (4) committees listed in this rule.
(3) The * * * Appropriations A Committee
and the Committee on Ways and Means each shall consist of thirty-three (33)
members appointed by the Speaker, six (6) members from each congressional
district as constituted on January 1, 2024, and nine (9) members from
the state at large. Appointments from the congressional districts shall be
made on the basis of seniority. For the purposes of this rule,
"seniority" shall mean length of service, continuous or interrupted,
in either the House of Representatives or the Senate. However, seniority among
members having the same length of service shall be determined as follows:
first, continuous, uninterrupted service in the House; second, continuous,
uninterrupted service in the House and Senate; third, interrupted service in
the House; and fourth, interrupted service in the House and Senate.
(4) In order for a member to be eligible for the rights accorded by this subsection (4), a member shall submit a list of his or her committee preferences, setting forth at least ten (10) committees in order of preference with the most preferred being first on the list, to the Clerk of the House by 5:00 p.m. on the third calendar day of the first legislative session immediately following the year in which the members of the Legislature are elected. With regard to committee appointments, the following shall be followed by the Speaker of the House in making such appointments:
(a) Each member of
the House who has served in the House for less than four (4) years, whether
such service be continuous or interrupted, and who is not appointed to be a
member of * * * any of the Appropriations Committees or the Committee
on Ways and Means shall, as a matter of right, be appointed to serve on at
least two (2) of the first seven (7) committees on such list, not to include any
of the Appropriations Committees and the Committee on Ways and
Means; and
(b) Each member of
the House who has served in the House for four (4) years or more, whether such
service be continuous or interrupted, and who is not appointed to be a member of * * * any of the Appropriations
Committees or the Committee on Ways and Means shall, as a matter of
right, be appointed to serve on at least three (3) of the first seven (7) committees
on such list, not to include any of the Appropriations Committees
and the Committee on Ways and Means.
(5) (a) The chairman of the Appropriations A Committee shall be an ex-officio voting member of the Appropriations B, Appropriations C, Appropriations D and Appropriations E Committees.
(b) Each member of the Appropriations B, Appropriations C, Appropriations D and Appropriations E Committees shall also be a member of the Appropriations A Committee. However, except for the chairman of the Appropriations A Committee, no member of the Appropriations B, Appropriations C, Appropriations D or Appropriations E Committees may be a member of any of the other Appropriations Committees other than the Appropriations A Committee.
(6) In making committee appointments, the Speaker shall give consideration to the preferences as expressed by the members on their lists as provided in subsection (4) of this rule, and to the seniority, abilities, and geographic location of the members.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, That Rule 61 of the Temporary Rules of the House, as adopted in House Resolution No. 1, 2024 Regular Session, is amended as follows:
61. The first member named
on a committee shall be its chairman and the second member named shall be its
vice chairman, except that the Vice Chairman of the Management Committee
shall be elected as provided in Rule 11A and the Appropriations B, Appropriations
C, Appropriations D and Appropriations E Committees shall not have a vice chairman.
However, no member who serves as chairman or vice chairman of a standing committee
shall serve as chairman or vice chairman of another standing committee, except
that the Chairman of the Ethics Committee, the Vice Chairman of the Rules
Committee * * *,
the Vice Chairman of the Management Committee and the Vice Chairman of the Committee
on State Affairs may be the chairman of another standing committee. There
shall be no further rank on committees, the remaining members being listed
thereon in alphabetical order. Each committee shall, after its organization,
immediately determine by a majority vote what shall constitute a sufficient
quorum for it to proceed to business, which quorum shall be not less than a
majority of the committee, and shall report that action to the Clerk of the
House.
