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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
3 HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
4 the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 104th General
5 Assembly are amended by changing Rule 42 as follows:
6 (House Rule 42)
7 42. Consent Calendar.
8 (a) The Clerk shall include a Consent Calendar on the
9 Daily Calendar and designate it as a separate calendar. The
10 Consent Calendar shall contain 3 orders of business: Consent
11 Calendar - Second Reading, Consent Calendar - Third Reading,
12 and Consent Calendar - Resolutions. Within each order of
13 business, bills or resolutions shall be listed in separate
14 groups according to the number of required days each has been
15 on that order of business on the Consent Calendar. No more than
16 25 80 bills and resolutions shall be listed in each group. All
17 bills or resolutions to which amendments have been adopted
18 shall be so designated.
19 (b) No debate is in order regarding any item on the Consent
20 Calendar. The Presiding Officer, however, shall allow a
21 reasonable time for questions from the floor and answers to
22 those questions. No amendment from the floor is in order
23 regarding any bill or resolution on the Consent Calendar.
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1 (c) A bill on the Consent Calendar shall stand for 2
2 legislative days on the order of Consent Calendar - Second
3 Reading, and for at least 2 legislative days on the order of
4 Consent Calendar - Third Reading, before a vote on the final
5 passage may be taken. Resolutions on the Consent Calendar
6 shall stand for at least 4 legislative days before a vote on
7 adoption may be taken. One record vote on final passage shall
8 be taken on those bills called for final passage. Immediately
9 before a vote on the bills on the Consent Calendar, the
10 Presiding Officer shall call to the attention of the members
11 the fact that the next legislative action will be the vote on
12 the Consent Calendar.
13 (d) A bill or resolution may be placed on the Consent
14 Calendar by report of a standing committee or special
15 committee upon a motion made only for that purpose that is
16 adopted by a unanimous vote of the members present. For
17 purposes of this subsection (d), a unanimous vote on the
18 motion is a vote with no member voting nay.
19 (e) No bill regarding revenue or appropriations may be
20 placed on the Consent Calendar. No resolution requiring more
21 than 60 affirmative votes for adoption and no bill requiring
22 more than 60 affirmative votes for passage by the House may be
23 placed on the Consent Calendar.
24 (f) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall each appoint
25 3 members who may challenge the presence of any bill or
26 resolution on the Consent Calendar. Before a vote on final
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