Bill Text: TX HR2 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the nomination and election procedures for speaker.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-01-08 - Reported enrolled [HR2 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR2-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 2 |
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BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the 86th | ||
Legislature of the State of Texas, That, in accordance with | ||
Sections 9(b) and 11, Article III, Texas Constitution, and the laws | ||
of the State of Texas, the House of Representatives of the 86th | ||
Legislature shall proceed to elect a speaker of the house from its | ||
own membership as follows: | ||
SECTION 1. NOMINATIONS. (a) The secretary of state shall | ||
call for nominations from the floor for the election of speaker of | ||
the house of representatives and shall recognize each member who | ||
desires to make a nomination. The order in which members shall | ||
proceed to make a nomination shall be determined by lot. | ||
(b) Each member recognized for this purpose shall | ||
immediately advance to the microphone at the reading clerk's desk | ||
and make the nomination in a nominating speech not to exceed five | ||
minutes in length. | ||
(c) After all nominations have been made, the secretary of | ||
state shall declare nominations to be closed. | ||
(d) The secretary of state shall recognize at any time a | ||
member whose name has been placed in nomination for the purpose of | ||
withdrawing as a nominee. A member who withdraws is not considered | ||
a nominee. | ||
SECTION 2. SECONDS. (a) A person is not considered a | ||
nominee unless the nomination is seconded by at least one member. | ||
(b) One seconding speech shall be allowed for each | ||
nomination in the order in which nominations were made, then other | ||
seconding speeches shall be allowed in rotation in the same order. | ||
(c) No more than five seconding speeches shall be allowed | ||
for each nominee. | ||
(d) A seconding speech may not exceed three minutes in | ||
length. | ||
SECTION 3. MOTION TO ELECT BY ACCLAMATION. If, after the | ||
close of all seconding speeches only one member's name remains in | ||
nomination for election to speaker of the house of representatives, | ||
the secretary of state shall recognize a motion to elect that member | ||
as speaker by acclamation. | ||
SECTION 4. OATH. (a) After the election, the secretary of | ||
state shall: | ||
(1) appoint a committee of members to escort the | ||
speaker-elect to the speaker's rostrum for the purpose of taking | ||
the constitutional oath or affirmation of office by the | ||
speaker-elect; and | ||
(2) direct the administration of the oath or | ||
affirmation of office to the speaker-elect. | ||
(b) The speaker shall take the chair immediately after | ||
taking the oath or affirmation of office. | ||
Price | ||
Dutton | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 2 was adopted by the House on January | ||
8, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 0 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||