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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 87
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; and no bill shall be
considered for final passage unless it has been reported on
by a committee and pr inted for the use of the senators. The
chair of each committee shall be authorized to report, and
the president pro tem shall receive, no more than three
bills deemed reportable by the chair of the committee when
the senate is on the order of business of reports of
standing committees. The president pro tem may receive
additional bills beyond the three that the chair is
authorized to report at his or her discretion. 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 , may, 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 a n
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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 u pon a vote
of the majority of the Senate.