ENROLLED
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 20
BY REPRESENTATIVES STEFANSKI AND GAROFALO
A RESOLUTION
To adopt House Rule 8.23 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives and to
repeal House Rule 8.21 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives
relative to procedures and requirements applicable to conference committee reports.
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Legislature of Louisiana
that House Rule 8.23 of the Rules of Order of the House of Representatives is hereby
adopted to read as follows:
Rule 8.23. Conference committee reports; consideration
A. 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.
B.(1) 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.
(2) Any motion, the effect of which is to suspend Subparagraph (1) of this
Paragraph shall be a debatable motion and shall require a favorable vote of two-
thirds of the members present and voting unless a conference committee report is
received on the day the legislature will adjourn sine die, then such a motion shall
require a favorable vote of a majority of the elected members of the House.
C. 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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D. Immediately prior to the consideration of 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.
E. The provisions of House Rule 8.15 shall apply to conference committee
reports on the General Appropriation Bill.
BE IT FURTHER 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 repealed in its entirety.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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