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House Concurrent Resolution 4

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                                    H.C.R. ________ S.C.R. ________


  1  1           HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                       BY  JACOBY
  1  3 A Concurrent Resolution amending the joint rules of the
  1  4    Senate and House of Representatives relating to the
  1  5    consideration of bills and joint resolutions in
  1  6    successive regular sessions of the same general
  1  7    assembly.
  1  8    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
  1  9 SENATE CONCURRING, That Rule 3 of the joint rules of
  1 10 the Senate and House of Representatives, as adopted by
  1 11 the House of Representatives and Senate during the
  1 12 2009 Session in House Concurrent Resolution 3, is
  1 13 amended to read as follows:
  1 14                         Rule 3
  1 15             Sessions of a General Assembly
  1 16    1.  The election of officers, organization, hiring
  1 17 and compensation of employees, and standing committees
  1 18 in each house of the general assembly and action taken
  1 19 by each house shall carry over from the first to the
  1 20 second regular session and to any extraordinary
  1 21 session of the same general assembly.  The status of
  1 22 each bill and resolution shall be the same at the
  1 23 beginning of each second session as it was immediately
  1 24 before adjournment of the previous regular or
  1 25 extraordinary session; however the rules of either
  1 26 house may provide for re=referral of some or all bills
  1 27 and resolutions to standing committees upon
  1 28 adjournment of each session or at the beginning of a
  1 29 subsequent regular or extraordinary session, except
  1 30 those which have been adopted by both houses in
  2  1 different forms and those which are placed on the
  2  2 calendar pursuant to subsection 2 of this rule.
  2  3    2.  a.  The standing committees may consider bills
  2  4 and joint resolutions during the first regular session
  2  5 of a general assembly, beyond the deadline for
  2  6 reporting bills and joint resolutions out of committee
  2  7 under rule 20, subsection 2.
  2  8    b.  Such bills and joint resolutions shall be
  2  9 reported out of committee with the committee as the
  2 10 sponsor and placed on the calendar before the end of
  2 11 the first regular session.
  2 12    c.  Such bills and joint resolutions shall not be
  2 13 rereferred to committee at the end of the first
  2 14 regular session, shall retain their place on the
  2 15 calendar at the beginning of the second regular
  2 16 session of the same general assembly, and shall be
  2 17 scheduled for debate as soon as possible.
  2 18    3.  Upon final adoption of a concurrent resolution
  2 19 at any extraordinary session affecting that session,
  2 20 or at a regular session affecting any extraordinary
  2 21 session which may be held before the next regular
  2 22 session, the creation of any calendar by either house
  2 23 shall be suspended and the business of the session
  2 24 shall consist solely of those bills or subject matters
  2 25 stated in the resolution adopted.  Bills named in the
  2 26 resolution, or bills containing the subject matter
  2 27 provided for in the resolution, may, at any time, be
  2 28 called up for debate in either house by the majority
  2 29 leader of that house.
  2 30 LSB 2031YH 83
  3  1 rj/nh/14