Bill Text: TX HR16 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Amending the permanent rules of the House of Representatives to decrease the number of days that a bill or resolution must be in a calendars committee before action is required to be taken on the bill or resolution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-23 - Referred to House Administration [HR16 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR16-Introduced.html
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| By: Slaton | H.R. No. 16 | |
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| BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 87th | ||
| Texas Legislature, That the permanent rules of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the 87th Legislature are amended as follows: | ||
| (1) Rule 6, Section 20, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 20. TIME LIMIT FOR VOTE TO PLACE ON A CALENDAR. Within | ||
| seven [ |
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| referred to the appropriate calendars committee, the committee must | ||
| vote on whether to place the bill or resolution on one of the | ||
| calendars of the daily house calendar or the local, consent, and | ||
| resolutions calendar, as applicable. A vote against placement of | ||
| the bill or resolution on a calendar does not preclude a calendars | ||
| committee from later voting in favor of placement of the bill or | ||
| resolution on a calendar. | ||
| (2) Rule 6, Section 21(a), is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) When a bill or resolution has been in the appropriate | ||
| calendars committee for seven [ |
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| calendar day on which it was referred, awaiting placement on one of | ||
| the calendars of the daily house calendar or on the local, consent, | ||
| and resolutions calendar, it shall be in order for a member to move | ||
| that the bill or resolution be placed on a specific calendar of the | ||
| daily house calendar or on the local, consent, and resolutions | ||
| calendar without action by the committee. This motion must be | ||
| seconded by five members and shall require a majority vote for | ||
| adoption. | ||
