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2020 First Extraordinary Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 20
BY REPRESENTATIVE MINCEY
A RESOLUTION
To amend and readopt House Rule 8.21 of the Rules of Order of the House of
Representatives to provide relative to conference committee reports.
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
that House Rule 8.21 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
amended and readopted to read as follows:
Rule 8.21. Conference committee reports; consideration
A.(1) A conference committee report shall be a privileged report and notice
of its receipt shall be given by the Clerk on the legislative day of its receipt at the
first opportunity without interrupting pending business. The question of
consideration of a conference committee report shall lie over until the appropriate
order of business during the Regular Orders on the next legislative day. The Clerk
shall place each conference committee report on the calendar in the order in which
it was received for consideration. Notwithstanding House Rule 13.2(A), on
(2) On the last calendar or legislative day of a session a motion to suspend
waive the requirement that the question of consideration of a conference committee
report lie over until the next legislative day contained in Subparagraph (1) of this
Paragraph shall require the favorable vote of a majority of the elected members of
the House and shall be debatable.
(3) A motion to suspend the provisions of this Paragraph shall be a debatable
motion.
B. The question upon consideration, unless a substitute or other main motion
be made, shall be the question of the adoption of the conference committee report.
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C. However, Notwithstanding Paragraph A of this Rule, on the last calendar
or legislative day of a session, after the Clerk shall have noticed the receipt of a
conference committee report which is confined to resolving the differences between
the two houses regarding the amendments which were rejected by the house of origin
and recommending technical amendments, the House shall consider such a
conference committee report upon motion, duly adopted, of any member, except as
provided in Paragraph D of this Rule. The motion to take up the consideration of
such a conference committee report shall be deemed a privileged incidental motion,
shall be in order during any order of business unless another motion or instrument
then be pending, and shall be adopted by a majority of those present and voting.
D.(1) On the last calendar or legislative day of a session, if a conference
committee report which is confined is received by the Clerk and there is less than
two hours remaining before adjournment of the session, the motion to take up the
consideration of such a conference committee report shall require the favorable vote
of a majority of the elected members of the House and shall not be debatable.
(2) On the last calendar or legislative day of a session, if a conference
committee report which is not confined is received by the Clerk and there is less than
two hours remaining before adjournment of the session, the motion to take up the
consideration of such a conference committee report shall require the favorable vote
of a majority of the elected members of the House and shall not be debatable,
however, such motion shall not be in order until after the motion required by
Paragraph (A)(2) of this Rule is adopted.
D. E.(1) If a conference committee report on any appropriation bill
supplementing the General Appropriation Act, the Capital Outlay Bill, the bill
appropriating funds for the judicial branch, the bill appropriating funds for the
legislative branch, or the omnibus bond authorization bill is received on the last day,
the provisions of Paragraph C and (D)(1) of this Rule shall apply to the consideration
of such a conference committee report even if the conference committee report is not
confined to resolving the differences between the two houses regarding the
amendments which were rejected by the house of origin and recommending technical
amendments.
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(2) The provisions of House Rule 8.15 shall apply to conference committee
reports on the General Appropriation Bill.
F. Prior to the consideration of a motion regarding a conference committee
report, the Clerk shall announce to the House all of the following:
(1) If, in the determination of the Clerk, the conference committee report is
confined to resolving the differences between the two houses regarding the
amendments which were rejected by the house of origin and recommending technical
amendments or is not so confined.
(2) The names of the conferees who signed the report and the names of the
conferees who did not sign the report, unless all of the conferees signed the report,
in which case the Clerk shall announce that fact.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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