House Journal: Page 329: Wednesday, February 7, 2001
16 amendment to the amendment, the bill shall be returned
17 to the house originating the bill which shall either:
18 (a) Recede, after which the bill shall be read for
19 the last time as amended and immediately placed upon
20 its final passage; or
21 (b) Insist, which will send the bill to a
22 conference committee.
23 2. A motion to recede has precedence over a motion
24 to insist. Failure to recede means to insist; and
25 failure to insist means to recede.
26 3. A motion to lay on the table or to indefinitely
27 postpone shall be out of order with respect to motions
28 to recede from or insist upon and to amendments to
29 bills which have passed both houses.
30 4. A motion to concur, refuse to concur, recede,
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1 insist, or adopt a conference committee report is in
2 order even though the subject matter has previously
3 been acted upon.
4 Rule 13
5 Conference Committee
6 1. Within one legislative day after either house
7 insists upon an amendment to a bill, the presiding
8 officer of the house, after consultation with the
9 majority leader, shall appoint three majority party
10 members and, after consultation with the minority
11 leader, shall appoint two minority party members to a
12 conference committee. The majority leader of the
13 senate, after consultation with the president, shall
14 appoint three majority party members and, after
15 consultation with and approval by the minority leader,
16 shall appoint two minority party members to a
17 conference committee. The papers shall remain with
18 the house that originated the bill.
19 2. The conference committee shall meet before the
20 end of the next legislative day after their
21 appointment, shall select a chair and shall discuss
22 the controversy.
23 3. The authority of the first conference committee
24 shall cover only issues related to provisions of the
25 bill and amendments to the bill which were adopted by
26 either the senate or the house of representatives and
27 on which the senate and house of representatives
28 differed. If a conference committee report is not
29 acted upon because such action would violate this
30 subsection of this rule, the inaction on the report
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1 shall constitute refusal to adopt the conference
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