HLS 11RS-38 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2011
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 8
BY REPRESENTATIVE HUTTER
LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE: Requires that the House committee chairman have the
opportunity to sign a conference committee report on a House instrument before all
other conferees and on a Senate instrument before other House conferees
A RESOLUTION1
To adopt House Rule 6.14(C) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives to2
provide for certain priority for House committee chairmen in signing conference3
committee reports.4
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana5
that House Rule 6.14(C) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby6
adopted to read as follows:7
Rule 6.14. Conference committees; membership; appointment; signing8
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C. The chairman of the committee that reported the instrument or the10
member appointed to the conference committee in place of such chairman as11
provided in Subparagraph (A)(2) of this Rule shall be given the opportunity to sign12
the conference committee report before all other conferees if the instrument being13
reported originated in the House of Representatives and before all other House14
conferees if the instrument being reported originated in the Senate.15 HLS 11RS-38 ORIGINAL
HR NO. 8
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Hutter HR No. 8
Abstract: Provides for certain priority in signing a conference committee report for the
chairman of the committee that reported the instrument or the member appointed to
the conference committee in place of such chairman.
Present House Rule provides for House appointees to a conference committee as follows:
(1)The member who authored or handled the instrument, or in his absence, a member
appointed by the Speaker.
(2)The chairman of the committee that reported the instrument, or in his absence, the
vice chairman of such committee, or in their absence, a member appointed by the
Speaker from among the members of such committee.
(3)One member appointed by the Speaker.
Proposed House Rule, relative to signing a conference committee report, provides that the
chairman of the House committee that reported the instrument or the member appointed to
the conference committee in place of such chairman (as provided in present House Rule –
see (2) above) shall be given the opportunity to sign the conference committee report before
all other conferees in the case of a House instrument and before all other House conferees
in the case of a Senate instrument.
(Adds House Rule 6.14(C))