Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 87
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resolutions and concurrent resolutions, not emergency in nature and not
privileged.
(71 [8)}] CONGRATULATORY AND MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS
CALENDAR, on which shall appear congratulatory and memorial resolutions
whose sole intent is to congratulate, memorialize, or otherwise express concern
or commendation. The Committee on Rules and Resolutions may provide
separate categories for congratulatory and memorial resolutions.
(b) A calendars committee shall strictly construe and the speaker shall
strictly enforce this system of calendars.
Sec. 8. SENATE BILL CALENDARS. (a) Senate bills and resolutions
pending in the house shall follow the same procedure with regard to calendars
as house bills and resolutions, but separate calendars shall be maintained for
senate bills and resolutions, and consideration of them on senate bill days
shall have priority in the manner and order specified in this rule.
(b) No other business shall be considered on days devoted to the
consideration of senate bills when there remain any bills on any of the senate
calendars, except with the consent of the senate. When all senate calendars
are clear, the house may proceed to consideration of house calendars on
senate bill days.
Sec. 9. SENATE BILL DAYS. (a) On calendar Wednesday and on
calendar Thursday of each week, only senate bills and senate resolutions shall
be taken up and considered, until disposed of. Senate bills and senate
resolutions shall be considered in the order prescribed in Section 7 of this
rule on separate senate calendars prepared by the Committee on Calendars.
In case a senate bill or senate resolution is pending at adjournment on
calendar Thursday, it shall go over to the succeeding calendar Wednesday as
unfinished business.
(b) Precedence given in Rule 8 to certain classes of bills during the first
60 calendar days of a regular session shall also apply to senate bills on senate
bill days.
Sec. 10. CONSIDERATION OF SENATE BILL ON SAME SUBJECT.
When any house bill is reached on the calendar or is before the house for
consideration, it shall be the duty of the speaker to give the place on the
calendar of the house bill to any senate bill containing the same subject that
has been referred to and reported from a committee of the house and to lay
the senate bill before the house, to be considered in lieu of the house bill.
Sec. 11. PERIODS FOR CONSIDERATION OF CONGRATULATORY
AND MEMORIAL CALENDARS. As the volume of legislation shall warrant,
the chair of the Committee on Rules and Resolutions shall move to
designate periods for the consideration of congratulatory and memorial
calendars. Each such motion shall require a two-thirds vote for its adoption.
In each instance, the Committee on Rules and Resolutions shall prepare and
distribute to each member a printed calendar at least 24 hours in advance of
the hour set for consideration. No memorial or congratulatory resolution will
be heard by the full house without having first been approved, at least 24
hours in advance, by a majority of the membership of the Committee on
Rules and Resolutions, in accordance with Rule 4, Section 16. It shall not
be necessary for the Committee on Rules and Resolutions to report aThursday, January 14, 1999
HOUSE JOURNAL - 3rd Day
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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/m1/91/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.