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