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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 85
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE CHANGE
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the One Hundred Third
General Assembly, First Regular Session, that Senate
Rule 50 be amended to read as follows:
Referrals of bills and appointments to committee shall be
made by the president pro tem . The referral of a bill to a
committee by the president pro tem shall be made to a
committee designated by the sponsor of the bill ; and no bill
shall be considered for final passage unless it has been
reported on by a committee and printed for the use of the
senators. A report of all bills recommended "do pass" by a
committee shall be submitted to the senate by the chairman
and all committee amendments accompanying the report shall
be printed in the Journal.
After a bill has been referred to a committee, one -third of
the senators elected has the power to relieve a committee of
further consideration of a bill and place it on the calendar
for consideration. In any case where a committee has been
relieved of further consideration of a bill as herein
provided, a majority of the senators present but not less
than one-third of the senators elected, ma y, at any time
before final passage thereof, again refer the bill to the
same or some other committee for consideration. No bill or
resolution shall be reported adversely by any committee
until the author of the bill or resolution has been given an
opportunity to appear and be heard before the committee to
which it is referred.
One-third of the senators elected may relieve a committee of
an appointment and a motion to grant advice and consent of
the Senate to that appointment is then in order upon a vote
of the majority of the Senate.