Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 61
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January 10, 1967
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with acceptable parliamentary proced-
ures, subject to such rules of proced-
ure as the Joint Committee itself may
adopt. At the conclusion of such hear-
ings, the Senate Finance Committee
shall retire to draft its version of the
General Appropriations Bill and the
House Appropriations Committee
shall retire separately to draft its
version of the General Appropriations
Bill.
21. In order to assure the continua-
tion of financial support of existing
state services through the considera-
tion and passage of the General Ap-
propriations Bill, it shall not be in
order during the first 120 days of the
regular session for the respective pre-
siding officer to lay before either
house of the Legislature, or for either
house or any committee thereof, to
consider, prior to the consideration,
passage and certification by the Comp-
troller of the General Appropriations
Bill, any bill which directly or in-
directly:
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 except
from a special fund into the General
Fund; or
4. Requires certification of the
Comptroller under Article 3, Section
49a, of the Constitution.
The provisions of this Rule shall
not apply to any bills appropriating
money for:
1. The payment of expenses of the
Legislature;
2. 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 Senate by its
Finance Committee and to the House
by its Appropriations Committee not
later than the seventieth calendar day
of the Regular Session.
FORM OF BILLS
22. To enable members of the Legis-
lature to understand more fully andmore easily the nature and legal ef-
fect of matters under consideration,
all bills and resolutions shall conform
to the following requirements:
(a) If a bill or resolution proposes
to amend an existing portion of the
Constitution, a statute, or a legislative
rule, the complete text of the existing
portion of such constitution, statute
or rule shall be quoted in full.
(b) Language to be added to the
existing portion of the Constitution,
statute or rule shall be inserted in
its appropriate place in the text there-
of and shall be underlined.
(c) Language to be deleted from
the existing portion of the Constitu-
tion, statute or rule shall be typed in
solid capital letters and enclosed in
parentheses.
(d) If the language to be added is
to replace a part of the existing text,
the new language shall precede the
existing text which is being replaced.
(e) If a portion of a word is being
changed (such as correcting capitaliza-
tion, spelling or punctuation), the en-
tire word shall be replaced. Such word
shall first be inserted correctly and
underlined, followed by the word as
it appears in existing text enclosed
in parentheses.
23. If the proposal to amend an
existing portion of the Constitution,
a statute or a legislative rule involves
a complete redraft of the entire text
hereof, to the extent that it would con-
fuse rather than clarify to show ad-
ditions and deletions, the foregoing
rule will not apply; however, the pre-
siding officer of the group having
such proposal under consideration
shall strictly construe the foregoing
rule to achieve the purposes thereof.
24. Compliance with the foregoing
two rules shall be required at all
stages of the legislative process ex-
cept in the engrossing and enrolling
of the bill or resolution, when the
underlining and the deleted text shall
be omitted.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
25. When a bill or resolution pass-
ed by one house is amended in the
other house, and the originating house
fails to concur in the amendments,
the disagreement shall be resolved by
a motion in the originating houseHOUSE JOURNAL
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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/m1/65/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.