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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 39 |
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| 4 | 4 | | NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE CHANGE |
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| 5 | 5 | | Notice is hereby given by the Senator from the 17th District of the one day notice |
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| 6 | 6 | | required by rule of intent to put a motion to adopt the following rule change: |
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| 7 | 7 | | BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the One Hundred Third |
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| 8 | 8 | | General Assembly, First Regular Session, that Senate |
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| 9 | 9 | | Rules 10, 13, and 29 be amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The president pro tem shall be parliamentarian of the senate |
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| 12 | 12 | | and may decide all points of order, and in his or her |
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| 13 | 13 | | absence such points of order may be decided by the chairman |
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| 14 | 14 | | of the Committee on the Judiciary and Civil and Criminal |
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| 15 | 15 | | Jurisprudence, except in either case, the point of order may |
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| 16 | 16 | | be referred by the then acting parliamentarian, to the |
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| 17 | 17 | | Committee on Parliamentary Procedure for consideration and |
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| 18 | 18 | | determination. All rulings on points of order shall be |
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| 19 | 19 | | subject to an appeal to the senate and all questions and |
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| 20 | 20 | | points of order shall be noted by the secretary with the |
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| 21 | 21 | | decision thereon. (See also Rule 27.) |
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| 22 | 22 | | The president pro tem shall be chosen by the senate, and if |
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| 23 | 23 | | the president pro tem so chosen is absent, or his or her |
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| 24 | 24 | | office vacant, the senate may pro ceed to elect an interim |
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| 25 | 25 | | president pro tem to hold the office during such absence or |
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| 26 | 26 | | other incapacity, at the pleasure of the senate. |
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| 27 | 27 | | 1. Senate offices and seats in the senate chamber shall be |
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| 28 | 28 | | assigned by the committee on administration to the majority |
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| 29 | 29 | | and minority caucuses. Each caucus shall make office and |
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| 30 | 30 | | senate seat assignments on the basis of seniority as defined |
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| 31 | 31 | | in this rule, unless otherwise determined within a caucus, |
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| 32 | 32 | | except that Rooms 326 and 327 shall be known as the |
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| 33 | 33 | | president pro tem's office and shall be occupied by the |
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| 34 | 34 | | senate's president pro tem. Upon retirement from service as |
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| 35 | 35 | | pro tem, that senator shall vacate the pro tem's office and |
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| 36 | 36 | | 2 |
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| 37 | 37 | | shall have first choice of available vacant offices of his |
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| 38 | 38 | | or her caucus, regardless of his or her seniority status. |
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| 39 | 39 | | Except for the outgoing president pro tem, who is required |
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| 40 | 40 | | to vacate the designated pro tem's office, no senator shall |
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| 41 | 41 | | be required to relinquish any office or seat once assigned |
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| 42 | 42 | | to him or her. |
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| 43 | 43 | | 2. Seniority shall be determi ned by each caucus on the |
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| 44 | 44 | | basis of length of service. Length of service means: |
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| 45 | 45 | | (a) Continuous senate service; |
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| 46 | 46 | | (b) In the case of equal continuous senate service, prior |
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| 47 | 47 | | non-continuous senate service; |
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| 48 | 48 | | (c) In the case of equal continuous and prior non - |
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| 49 | 49 | | continuous senate service, prior house service. |
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| 50 | 50 | | 3. When two or more members of the same party have the same |
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| 51 | 51 | | length of service, their respective seniority shall be |
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| 52 | 52 | | determined by their party caucus. |
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