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                                       HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 4422

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

 

By Representative Peery

 

Read first time 05/06/93.  Referred to Committee on .

 

Amending the joint rules.


          BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That Rule 26 of the Joint Rules of the Fifty-Third Legislature be amended as follows:

 

                                                      Adoption of Reports

 

        Rule 26.    No floor vote may be taken on any conference committee report without a distribution to all members of a summary of additions, changes, and deletions made by the conference committee with a reference in each instance to the page and line number or numbers in the report containing said additions, changes, or deletions.  The clerk and the secretary shall place the reports on the desks of the members as soon as possible.

          Each house shall have twenty-four hours from the time of proper receipt, by the chief clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate, and by distribution to the desks of the members before considering reports from a conference committee which has proposed new items within the scope and object of the bill in conference. The report shall be read in full.

          The foregoing provisions relating to twenty-four hour intervals and reading of the report in full may be suspended by the senate or the house of representatives by two-thirds vote of the members present, or, on May 6, 1993, by a majority vote of the members present, and such suspension shall apply only to the house voting to suspend these provisions.

          The report must be voted upon in its entirety and cannot be amended.  The report of a conference committee may be adopted by acclamation.

          Passage of a bill as amended by conference report shall be by roll call and ayes and nays shall be entered on the journals of the respective house.  Passage requires a constitutional majority in both houses, except in the case of constitutional amendments, which require a two-thirds vote.

 


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