Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 45
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January 10, 1967
HOUSE JOURNAL
the bill or resolution to be considered
section by section, or department by
department, until each such section
or department shall have been given
separate consideration. If such pro-
cedure is ordered, only amendments
to the section or department under
consideration at any given time shall
be in order; provided, however, that
after each such section or depart-
ment shall have been considered
separately, the entire bill or resolu-
tion shall be open for amendment,
subject to the provisions of Section
6 of Rule XX. Once the considera-
tion of a bill section by section or
department by department shall have
been ordered, it shall not be in order
to move the previous question on the
entire bill, to recommit it, to lay it on
the table, or to postpone it, until each
section or department shall have been
given separate consideration or the
vote by which section by section con-
ideration was ordered is recon-
sidered.
Section 32. A motion to consider a
bi'l section by section is debatable
within narrow limits, that is, the pros
and cons of such proposed consider-
ation can be debated but not the
merits of the bill.
Section 33. In order to assure the
continuation of financial support of
existing state services through the
consideration and passage of the Gen-
eral Appropriations Bill, it shall not
be in order during the first 120 days
of the regular session for the Speak-
er to lay before the House, or for any
committee thereof to consider, prior
to the consideration, passage and cer-
tification by the Comptroller of the
General Appropriations Bill, any bill
which directly or indirectly:
1. Appropriates money from the
State Treasury;
2. Prevents any money from enter-
ing the State Treasury;
3. Transfers, diverts or appropri-
ates money in the State Treasury
from one fund to another fund ex-
cept from a special fund into the
General Revenue Fund; or
4. Requires certification of the
Comptroller under Article 3, Section
49a, of the Constitution.
The provisions of this Rule shallnot apply to any
money for:
1. The payment
Legislature;bills appropriating
of expenses of the2. The payment of judgments
against the State; or
3. Any emergency matter when re-
quested by the Governor in a formal
message to the Legislature.
The General Appropriations Bill
shall be reported to the House by the
Appropriations Committee not later
than the seventieth calendar day of
the Regular Session.
RULE XX
OF AMENDMENTS
Section 1. When a bill, resolution,
motion or proposition is under con-
sideration, a motion to amend and a
motion to amend that amendment
shall be in order; and it shall also be
in order to offer a further amend-
ment by way of a substitute. A substi-
tute for a resolution, motion, propo-
sition (except bills), amendment or
amendment to an amendment may be
offered. Substitutes may not be
amended. When a substitute is adopt-
ed the question shall then be upon
the matter as substituted, and under
'his condition an amendment is not
in order.
Section 2. Three copies of each
'mendment, identical in text, shall be
filed with the Speaker. When the
amendment is read, two copies shall
go to the Chief Clerk and one copy
to the Journal Clerk.
Section 3. When an amendment is
offered and an amendment to that
amendment, and a substitute for the
amendment to the amendment is of-
fered, these questions shall be voted
on in the reverse order.
Section 4. Classes of motions to
amend shall have precedence in the
following order:
(a) Amendment to strike out the
-nacting clause of a bill (or the re-
solving clause of a resolution), which
amendment cannot be amended or
substituted.
(b) Motions to amend an original
bill, resolution, motion or proposition
(other than those provided for in (c)45
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1967; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193874/m1/49/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.