House Journal: Page 325: Wednesday, February 7, 2001
6 Be It Resolved By The Senate, The House Of
7 Representatives Concurring, That the joint rules of
8 the Senate and House of Representatives for the
9 Seventy-eighth Seventy-ninth General Assembly shall
10 be:
11 JOINT RULES OF THE
12 SENATE AND HOUSE
13 Rule 1
14 Suspension of Joint Rules
15 The joint rules of the general assembly may be
16 suspended by concurrent resolution, duly adopted by a
17 constitutional majority of the senate and the house.
18 Rule 2
19 Designation of Sessions
20 Each regular session of a general assembly shall be
21 designated by the year in which such regular session
22 commences.
23 Rule 3
24 Sessions of a General Assembly
25 The election of officers, organization, hiring and
26 compensation of employees, and standing committees in
27 each house of the general assembly and action taken by
28 each house shall carry over from the first to the
29 second regular session and to any extraordinary
30 session of the same general assembly. The status of
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1 each bill and resolution shall be the same at the
2 beginning of each second session as it was immediately
3 before adjournment of the previous regular or
4 extraordinary session; however the rules of either
5 house may provide for re-referral of some or all bills
6 and resolutions to standing committees upon
7 adjournment of each session or at the beginning of a
8 subsequent regular or extraordinary session, except
9 those which have been adopted by both houses in
10 different forms.
11 Upon final adoption of a concurrent resolution at
12 any extraordinary session affecting that session, or
13 at a regular session affecting any extraordinary
14 session which may be held before the next regular
15 session, the creation of any calendar by either house
16 shall be suspended and the business of the session
17 shall consist solely of those bills or subject matters
18 stated in the resolution adopted. Bills named in the
19 resolution, or bills containing the subject matter
20 provided for in the resolution, may, at any time, be
21 called up for debate in either house by the majority
22 leader of that house.
23 Rule 3A '
24 International Relations Protocol
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