HLS 161ES-72 ORIGINAL
2016 First Extraordinary Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 1
BY REPRESENTATIVE REYNOLDS
HOUSE/RULES: Prohibits a member from voting or changing a vote after the result of the
vote has been announced
1 A RESOLUTION
2To amend and readopt House Rule 10.8(B) of the Rules of Order of the House of
3 Representatives to prohibit a member from voting or changing a vote after the result
4 of the vote has been announced.
5 BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
6that House Rule 10.8(B) of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
7amended and readopted to read as follows:
8 Rule 10.8. Change of vote
9 * * *
10 B. A member may seek consent to correct a vote record, but such consent
11 shall only be requested and granted on the same legislative day on which the vote
12 was taken. A motion to seek consent to correct a vote record shall be a debatable
13 motion. No member shall vote or change a vote after the result of the vote has been
14 announced by the presiding officer. A motion to suspend the provisions of this
15 Paragraph shall be a debatable motion.
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DIGEST
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HR 1 Original 2016 First Extraordinary Session Reynolds
Abstract: Prohibits a member from voting or changing a vote after the result has been
announced. Provides that a motion to suspend the prohibition is a debatable motion.
Present House Rule provides that in the case of a roll call vote, any member may vote or
change his vote, after the vote-recording equipment has started, or the roll has been called,
by rising in his seat and announcing his vote before the result of the vote has been
announced by the presiding officer. Present House Rule further provides that a member may
seek consent to correct a vote record, and consent shall only be requested and granted on the
same legislative day on which the vote was taken. Provides that a motion to seek consent
to correct a vote record shall be a debatable motion.
Proposed House Rule removes the provisions relative to allowing a member to seek consent
to correct a vote record and instead prohibits a member from voting or changing a vote after
the result is announced. Further provides that any motion to suspend the proposed House
Rule shall be a debatable motion.
(Amends House Rule 10.8(B))
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