Bill Text: TX HR35 | 2017 | 85th Legislature 1st Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Amending Rule 5 of the rules of the House.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-20 - Referred to Rules & Resolutions [HR35 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR35-Introduced.html
By: Tinderholt | H.R. No. 35 |
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BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of | ||
Texas, that the following amendments to the permanent rules of the | ||
House of Representatives of the 85th Legislature are hereby | ||
adopted. | ||
Rule 5, Sec. 6 is 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. | ||
Rule 5, Sec. 8 is amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 8. SECURING A QUORUM. 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. | ||
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, to compel | ||
the attendance of absent members, or, by a vote of a majority of all | ||
members, impose the following penalties on absent members: | ||
(1) remove an absent member from any committee | ||
chairmanship; | ||
(2) remove an absent member from any procedural | ||
committee; and | ||
(3) permanently remove any privilege or advantage | ||
regularly due to an absent member on the basis of seniority [ |
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