Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 95
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reporting it from committee, shall be allowed to close the debate after the
motion to table is made and before it is put to a vote. When a motion to
table is made to a debatable main motion, the main motion mover shall be
allowed 20 minutes to close the debate, whereas the movers of other
debatable motions sought to be tabled shall be allowed only 10 minutes to
close. The vote by which a motion to table is carried or lost cannot be
reconsidered. After the previous question has been ordered, a motion to table
is not in order. The provisions of this section do not apply to motions to
"lay on the table subject to call"; however, a motion to lay on the table
subject to call cannot be made after the previous question has been ordered.
Sec. 13. MATTERS TABLED SUBJECT TO CALL. When a bill,
resolution, or other matter is pending before the house, it may be laid on the
table subject to call, and one legislative day's notice, as printed on the
Supplemental House Calendar, must be given before the proposition can be
taken from the table, unless it is on the same legislative day, in which case
it can be taken from the table at any time except when there is another matter
pending before the house. A bill, resolution, or other matter can be taken
from the table only by a majority vote of the house. When a special order
is pending, a motion to take a proposition from the table cannot be made
unless the proposition is a privileged matter.
Sec. 14. MOTION TO POSTPONE. A motion to postpone to a day
certain may be amended and is debatable within narrow limits, but the merits
of the proposition sought to be postponed cannot be debated. A motion to
postpone indefinitely opens to debate the entire proposition to which it
applies.
Sec. 15. POSTPONED MATTERS. A bill or proposition postponed to a
day certain shall be laid before the house at the time on the calendar day
to which it was postponed, provided it is otherwise eligible under the rules
and no other business is then pending. If business is pending, the postponed
matter shall be deferred until the pending business is disposed of without
prejudice otherwise to its right of priority. When a privileged matter is
postponed to a particular time, and that time arrives, the matter, still retaining
its privileged nature, shall be taken up even though another matter is
pending.
Sec. 16. ORDER OF CONSIDERATION OF POSTPONED MATTERS. If
two or more bills, resolutions, or other propositions are postponed to the same
time, and are otherwise eligible for consideration at that time, they shall be
considered in the chronological order of their setting.
Sec. 17. MOTION TO REFER. When motions are made to refer a subject
to a select or standing committee, the question on the subject's referral to a
standing committee shall be put first.
Sec. 18. MOTION TO RECOMMIT. A motion to recommit a bill, after
being defeated at the routine motion period, may again be made when the
bill itself is under consideration; however, a motion to recommit a bill shall
not be in order at the routine motion period if the bill is then before the
house as either pending business or unfinished business.
A motion to recommit a bill or resolution can be made and voted on
even though the author, sponsor, or principal proponent is not present.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/m1/99/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.