Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 76
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76th LEGISLATURE- REGULAR SESSION
present and fails or refuses to record on a roll call after being requested to
do so by the speaker shall be recorded as present by the speaker and shall
be counted for the purpose of making a quorum.
Sec. 5. POINT OF ORDER OF "NO QUORUM." (a) The point of order
of "No Quorum" shall not be accepted by the chair if the last roll call
showed the presence of a quorum, provided the last roll call was taken within
two hours of the time the point of order is raised.
(b) If the last roll call was taken more than two hours before the point
of order is raised, it shall be in order for the member who raised the point
of order to request a roll call. Such a request must be seconded by 25
members. If the request for a roll call is properly seconded, the chair shall
order a roll call.
(c) Once a point of order has been made that a quorum is not present,
it may not be withdrawn after the absence of a quorum has been ascertained
and announced.
Sec. 6. MOTIONS IN ORDER WHEN QUORUM NOT PRESENT. If a
registration or record vote reveals that a quorum is not present, only a motion
to adjourn or a motion for a call of the house and the motions incidental
thereto shall be in order.
Sec. 7. MOTION FOR CALL OF THE HOUSE. It shall be in order to
move a call of the house at any time to secure and maintain a quorum for
one of the following purposes:
(1) for the consideration of a specific bill, resolution, motion, or
other measure;
(2) for the consideration of any designated class of bills; or
(3) for a definite period of time.
Motions for, and incidental to, a call of the house are not debatable.
Sec. 8. SECURING A QUORUM. When a call of the house is moved for
one of the above purposes and seconded by 15 members (of whom the
speaker may be one) and ordered by a majority vote, the main entrance to
the hall and all other doors leading out of the hall shall be locked and no
member permitted to leave the house without the written permission of the
speaker. The names of members present shall be recorded. All absentees for
whom no sufficient excuse is made may, by order of a majority of those
present, be sent for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by the
sergeant-at-arms or an officer appointed by the sergeant-at-arms for that
purpose, and their attendance shall be secured and retained. The house shall
determine on what conditions they shall be discharged. Members who
voluntarily appear shall, unless the house otherwise directs, be immediately
admitted to the hall of the house and shall report their names to the clerk
to be entered in the journal as present.
Until a quorum appears, should the roll call fail to show one present, no
business shall be transacted, except to compel the attendance of absent
members or to adjourn. It shall not be in order to recess under a call of the
house.
Sec. 9. FOLLOWING ACHIEVEMENT OF A QUORUM. When a quorum
is shown to be present, the house may proceed with the matters on which the
call was ordered, or may enforce the call and await the attendance of as many76
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1999; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97442/m1/80/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.