Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 86
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76th LEGISLATURE- REGULAR SESSION
majority vote, a different time for the special order consideration than that
given in the original motion.
Sec. 6. MEMBER'S SUSPENSION AND SPECIAL ORDER PRIVILEGES.
If a member moves to set a bill or joint resolution as a special order, or moves
to suspend the rules to take up a bill or joint resolution out of its regular
order, and the motion prevails, the member shall not have the right to make
either of these motions again until every other member has had an
opportunity, via either of these motions, to have some bill or joint resolution
considered out of its regular order during that session of the legislature. A
member shall not lose the suspension privilege if the motion to suspend or
set for special order does not prevail.
Sec. 7. SYSTEM OF CALENDARS. (a) Legislative business of the
house shall be controlled by a system of calendars, consisting of the
following:
(1) EMERGENCY CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills
considered to be of such pressing and imperative import as to demand
immediate action, bills to raise revenue and levy taxes, and the general
appropriations bill. A bill submitted as an emergency matter by the governor
may also be placed on this calendar.
(2) MAJOR STATE CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills of
statewide effect, not emergency in nature, which establish or change state
policy in a major field of governmental activity and which will have a major
impact in application throughout the state without regard to class, area, or
other limiting factors.
(3) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CALENDAR, on which
shall appear joint resolutions proposing amendments to the Texas
Constitution, joint resolutions proposing the ratification of amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, and joint resolutions applying to Congress
for a convention to amend the Constitution of the United States.
(4) GENERAL STATE CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills of
statewide effect, not emergency in nature, which establish or change state law
and which have application to all areas but are limited in legal effect by
classification or other factors which minimize the impact to something less
than major state policy, and bills, not emergency in nature, which are not
on the [a] local, consent, and resolutions [r--eonsent] calendar.
(5) [LOCAL CALENDAR, on ~~hch shall appear l bill, nt
[#6}] LOCAL CONSENT, AND RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR, on
which shall appear bills, house resolutions, and concurrent resolutions, not
emergency in nature, regardless of extent and scope, on which there is such
general agreement as to render improbable any opposition to the
consideration and passage thereof, and which have been recommended by the
appropriate standing committee for placement on the local, consent, and
6] [T RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR, on which shall appear house86
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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/m1/90/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.