House Journal: Page 125: Wednesday, January 20, 1999

 7  into the bill in the originating house but shall be

 8  filed separately.  Amendments filed from the floor to
 9  strike sections of the bill or the committee
10  amendments shall be in order.  Following amendment and
11  passage by the second house, only amendments filed
12  from the floor which strike sections of the amendment
13  of the second house shall be in order.
14     A bill recommended by the Code editor which is
15  passed out of committee to the floor for debate by a
16  committee of the house or senate within the first four
17  weeks of convening of a legislative session and which
18  contains Code corrections beyond those of a
19  nonsubstantive nature shall not be amended on the
20  floor of either house except pursuant to amendments
21  filed by the judiciary committee of the senate or the
22  house.  Such committee amendments, whether filed at
23  the time of initial committee passage of the bill to
24  the floor for debate or after rereferral to the
25  committee, shall not be incorporated into the bill in
26  the originating house but shall be filed separately.
27  Such a bill shall be limited to corrections which:
28  Adjust language to reflect current practices, insert
29  earlier omissions, delete redundancies and
30  inaccuracies, delete temporary language, resolve
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 1  inconsistencies and conflicts, update ongoing
 2  provisions, and remove ambiguities.  Amendments filed
 3  from the floor to strike sections of the bill or the
 4  committee amendments shall be in order.  Following
 5  amendment and passage by the second house, only
 6  amendments filed from the floor which strike sections
 7  of the amendment of the second house shall be in
 8  order.
 9                                  Rule 12
10                 Amendments by Other House
11     I 1.  When a bill which originated in one house is
12  amended in the other house, the house originating the
13  bill may amend the amendment, concur in full in the
14  amendment, or refuse to concur in full in the
15  amendment.  Precedence of motions shall be in that
16  order.  The amendment of the other house shall not be
17  ruled out of order based on a question of germaneness.
18     A a.  If the house originating the bill concurs in
19  the amendment, the bill shall then be immediately
20  placed upon its final passage.
21     B b.  If the house originating the bill refuses to
22  concur in the amendment, the bill shall be returned to
23  the amending house which shall either:
24     1. (1)  Recede, after which the bill shall be read
25  for the last time and immediately placed upon its
26  final passage; or
27     2. (2)  Insist, which will send the bill to a

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