Bill Text: TX HR21 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Amending the permanent rules of the House of Representatives to provide for the imposition of penalties on absent members.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-09-27 - Referred to House Administration [HR21 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HR21-Introduced.html
| 87S30232 MAW-D | ||
| By: Tinderholt | H.R. No. 21 | |
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| BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 87th | ||
| Texas Legislature, That Sections 6 and 8 of Rule 5 of the permanent | ||
| rules of the House of Representatives of the 87th Legislature are | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 6. MOTIONS IN ORDER WHEN QUORUM NOT PRESENT. If a | ||
| registration or record vote reveals that a quorum is not present, | ||
| only a motion to adjourn or a motion for a call of the house and the | ||
| motions incidental thereto, including motions to impose penalties | ||
| on absent members, shall be in order. | ||
| Sec. 8. SECURING A QUORUM. (a) When a call of the house is | ||
| moved for one of the above purposes and seconded by 15 members (of | ||
| whom the speaker may be one) and ordered by a majority vote, the | ||
| main entrance to the hall and all other doors leading out of the | ||
| hall shall be locked and no member permitted to leave the house | ||
| without the written permission of the speaker. The names of members | ||
| present shall be recorded. All absentees for whom no sufficient | ||
| excuse is made may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent | ||
| for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by the | ||
| sergeant-at-arms or an officer appointed by the sergeant-at-arms | ||
| for that purpose, and their attendance shall be secured and | ||
| retained. The house shall determine on what conditions they shall | ||
| be discharged. Members who voluntarily appear shall, unless the | ||
| house otherwise directs, be immediately admitted to the hall of the | ||
| house and shall report their names to the clerk to be entered in the | ||
| journal as present. | ||
| (b) Until a quorum appears, should the roll call fail to | ||
| show one present, it shall not be in order to recess under a call of | ||
| the house and no business shall be transacted, except to adjourn, | ||
| compel the attendance of absent members, or, by a vote of a majority | ||
| of all members, impose the following penalties on absent members: | ||
| (1) removal of an absent member from any committee | ||
| chairmanship; | ||
| (2) removal of an absent member from any procedural | ||
| committee; and | ||
| (3) permanent removal of any privilege or advantage | ||
| regularly due to an absent member on the basis of seniority [ |
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