Bill Text: GA HR14 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: House; adopt rules
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-01-12 - House Read and Adopted [HR14 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR14-Introduced.html
09 LC 14
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House
Resolution 14
By:
Representative Keen of the
179th
A
RESOLUTION
Adopting
the Rules of the House of Representatives; and for other purposes.
BE
IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that the Rules of the House of
Representatives in effect at the adjournment of the 2008 Regular Session of the
General Assembly, "Rules, Ethics, and Decorum of the House of Representatives,"
are hereby adopted as the Rules of the House of Representatives for the 2009
Regular Session and for the duration of this General Assembly, with the
following amendments:
SECTION
1.
The
Rules of the House are amended by adding a new Rule 1.1 as follows:
"1.1
There shall be no speaking into any telephonic device or any audible sounds
emitting from any such device in the House of Representatives Chamber. However,
Members may use messaging capabilities of such
devices."
SECTION
2.
Said
rules are further amended by revising Rule 11.4 as follows:
"11.4
The chairman and secretary of the Committee on Appropriations shall be an ex
officio member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and the chairman and vice
chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means shall be ex officio members of the
Committee on Appropriations. The chairman of the Committee on Ethics shall be
an ex officio member of the Committee on Judiciary. Such ex officio members
shall have a vote on such committees and their subcommittees.
The chairman
of the Committee on Judiciary shall be an ex officio member of the Committee on
Judiciary, Non-civil. The chairman of the Committee on Judiciary, Non-civil
shall be an ex officio member of the Committee on
Judiciary."
SECTION
3.
Said
rules are further amended by revising Rule 13 as follows:
"Rule
13.
13.1.
Each committee or subcommittee shall first meet upon the call of the chairman
and perfect its organization. After the organizational meeting, each committee
or subcommittee shall meet upon the call of its chairman. The vice chairman may
call a meeting of the committee or subcommittee if the vice chairman obtains a
certificate from the Speaker certifying that the chairman is incapacitated or if
he or she is directed by the chairman to call the meeting to consider such
measures as specified by the chairman. Each subcommittee shall be subject to
the will of its parent standing committee and the officers thereof.
13.2.
No bill shall be reported to the House until it has been acted upon by the
standing committee, and all actions of any subcommittee shall be submitted to
its parent standing committee."
SECTION
4.
Said
rules are further amended by revising Rules 18.2 and 18.3 and adding Rule 18.4
as follows:
"18.2.
When the committee staff reports to the chairman that local legislation meets
the technical requirements for which the staff inspects and has been signed by
the requisite local delegation members under Rule 18.1, the legislation shall be
favorably reported as a matter of course, without the necessity of action by the
committee, unless otherwise ordered by the chairman or the committee. Rule
13
13.2
shall not apply to legislation reported under this Rule.
18.3.
When local
legislation has been favorably reported in accordance with Rule 18.2, such
legislation shall be considered by the House under Rule 33.2(d).
18.4.
No local bill or resolution referred to the committee shall be released to any
person, including members of the House, except upon the condition that such
person shall return the bill or resolution to the chairman of the Committee on
State Planning and Community Affairs within six hours of the chairman's request
to do so."
SECTION
5.
Said
rules are further amended by revising Rule 33.5 as follows:
"33.5
Rule 33.2 shall not apply with respect to amendments to
the
following classes of legislation: (1) Local legislation; and (2)
Privileged
privileged
resolutions."
