Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 93
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RULE 7. MOTIONS
CHAPTER A. GENERAL MOTIONS
Sec. 1. MOTIONS DECIDED WITHOUT DEBATE. The following
motions, in addition to any elsewhere provided herein, shall be decided
without debate, except as otherwise provided in these rules:
(1) to adjourn;
(2) to lay on the table;
(3) to lay on the table subject to call;
(4) to suspend the rule as to the time for introduction of bills;
(5) to order a call of the house, and all motions incidental thereto;
(6) an appeal by a member called to order;
(7) on questions relating to priority of business;
(8) to amend the caption of a bill or resolution;
(9) to extend the time of a member speaking under the previous
question or to allow a member who has the right to speak after the previous
question is ordered to yield the time, or a part of it, to another;
(10) to reconsider and table.
Sec. 2. MOTIONS SUBJECT TO DEBATE. The speaker shall permit the
mover and one opponent of the motion three minutes each during which to
debate the following motions without debating the merits of the bill,
resolution, or other matter, and the mover of the motion may elect to either
open the debate or close the debate, but the mover's time may not be divided:
(1) to suspend the regular order of business and take up some
measure out of its regular order;
(2) to instruct a committee to report a certain bill or resolution;
(3) to rerefer a bill or resolution from one committee to another;
(4) to place a bill or resolution on a specific calendar without
action by the appropriate calendars committee;
(5) to take up a bill or resolution laid on the table subject to call;
(6) to set a special order;
(7) to suspend the rules;
(8) to suspend the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on
three several days;
(9) to pass a resolution suspending the joint rules;
(10) to order the previous question;
(11) to order the limiting of amendments to a bill or resolution;
(12) to print documents, reports, or other material in the journal;
(13) to take any other action required or permitted during the routine
motion period by Rule 6, Section 1;
(14) to divide the question.
Sec. 3. MOTIONS ALLOWED DURING DEBATE. When a question is
under debate, the following motions, and none other, shall be in order, and
such motions shall have precedence in the following order:
(1) to adjourn;
(2) to take recess;
(3) to lay on the table;
(4) to lay on the table subject to call;
(5) for the previous question;Thursday, January 14, 1999
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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/m1/97/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.