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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 62
BY REPRESENTATIVE BROADWATER
LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE: Provides relative to substantive floor amendments to bills
on the local and consent calendar and provides relative to calendar placement of
certain bills
A RESOLUTION1
To adopt House Rules 8.25(C) and 11.5.1 of the Rules of Order of the House of2
Representatives to provide relative to substantive floor amendments to a bill or joint3
resolution on the local and consent calendar and to provide relative to calendar4
placement of certain legislation under certain circumstances.5
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana6
that House Rules are 8.25(C) and 11.5.1 of the Rules of Order of the House of7
Representatives are hereby adopted to read as follows:8
Rule 8.25. Calendars; removal from9
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C.(1) If any member files a substantive floor amendment to an instrument11
on the local and consent calendar prior to consideration of the instrument, the Clerk12
of the House shall inform the Speaker who shall announce that a substantive13
amendment has been filed to the instrument, and the instrument shall be removed14
from the local and consent calendar and placed on the regular calendar in numerical15
order with the bills that will be considered first on the next legislative day.16
(2) If any member files a substantive floor amendment to an instrument on17
the local and consent calendar during consideration of the instrument, the Clerk of18
the House shall inform the Speaker who shall announce that a substantive19 HLS 12RS-614 ORIGINAL
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amendment has been filed to the instrument and the instrument shall be returned to1
the calendar, removed from the local and consent calendar, and placed on the regular2
calendar in numerical order with the bills that will be considered first on the next3
legislative day.4
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Rule 11.5.1. Local and consent calendar; prohibited floor amendments6
Except for technical amendments and amendments proposed on behalf of the7
Legislative Bureau, it shall not be in order for the House of Representatives to8
consider any floor amendment to a bill or joint resolution on the local and consent9
calendar.10
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)]
Broadwater HR No. 62
Abstract: Prohibits substantive floor amendments to bills and joint resolutions on the local
and consent calendar from being considered by the House of Representatives.
Provides that if a substantive floor amendment is offered, the bill shall be removed
from the local and consent calendar and placed on the regular calendar to be
considered on the next legislative day.
Present House Rules provides that each local bill which has been advertised in accordance
with present constitution and each bill and joint resolution which is reported by a standing
committee by unanimous vote, and which the committee adopts a separate motion to place
on the local and consent calendar, shall be placed on such calendar unless the author objects.
Further provides that upon second reading of a bill (and unless objected to by 21 members),
the author or member authorized to handle the bill may make a motion to place the bill on
such calendar.
Proposed House Rules further provides that except for technical amendments and
amendments proposed on behalf of the Legislative Bureau, it shall not be in order for the
House to consider any floor amendment to a bill or joint resolution on the local and consent
calendar. Further provides that if any member files a substantive floor amendment to an
instrument on the local and consent calendar prior to consideration of the instrument, the
Clerk shall inform the Speaker who shall announce that a substantive amendment has been
filed to the instrument, and the instrument shall be removed from the local and consent
calendar and placed on the regular calendar in numerical order with the bills that will be
considered first on the next legislative day. Provides for the same procedure if the
amendment is offered during consideration of the instrument, except that after the Speaker's
announcement, the bill is returned to the calendar before being removed from the local and
consent calendar and placed on the regular calendar.
(Adds House Rules 8.25(C) and 11.5.1)