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Art. 3 Sec. 11
a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day,
and compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such
penalties as each House may provide.
Sec. 11. RULES OF PROCEDURE; EXPULSION OF MEMBER.
Each House may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish members
for disorderly conduct, and, with the consent of two-thirds, expel a member, but
not a second time for the same offense.
* Sec. 12. JOURNALS OF PROCEEDINGS; ENTERING YEAS AND
* NAYS. (a) Each house of the legislature shall keep a journal of its proceedings,
and publish the same.
S (b) A vote taken by either house must be by record vote with the vote of each
member entered in the journal of that house if the vote is on final passage of a
bill, a resolution proposing or ratifying a constitutional amendment, or another
" resolution other than a resolution of a purely ceremonial or honorary nature.
Either house by rule may provide for exceptions to this requirement for a bill that
applies only to one district or political subdivision of this state. For purposes of
5 this subsection, a vote on final passage includes a vote on third reading in a house,
or on second reading if the house suspends the requirement for three readings,
S on whether to concur in the other house's amendments, and on whether to adopt
a conference committee report.
(c) The yeas and nays of the members of either house on any other question
shall, at the desire of any three members present, be entered on the journals.
(d) Each house shall make each record vote required under Subsection (b)
of this section, including the vote of each individual member as recorded in the
journal of that house, available to the public for a reasonable period of not less
A than two years through the Internet or a successor electronic communications
system accessible by the public. For a record vote on a bill or on a resolution
proposing or ratifying a constitutional amendment, the record vote must be
* accessible to the public by reference to the designated number of the bill or
resolution and by reference to its subject. (Subsecs. (a) and (c) amended, and
" (b) and (d) added Nov. 6, 2007.)
* Sec. 13. VACANCIES; WRITS OF ELECTION. (a) When vacancies
occur in either House, the Governor, or the person exercising the power of the
Governor, shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies; and should the
Governor fail to issue a writ of election to fill any such vacancy within twenty
days after it occurs, the returning officer of the district in which such vacancy
may have happened, shall be authorized to order an election for that purpose.
(b) The legislature may provide by general law for the filling of a vacancy
in the legislature without an election if only one person qualifies and declares a
" candidacy in an election to fill the vacancy. (Amended Nov. 6, 2001.)
* Sec. 14. PRIVILEGED FROM ARREST. Senators and Representatives
shall, except in cases of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from
arrest during the session of the Legislature, and in going to and returning from the
same. (Amended Nov. 2, 1999.) (TEMPORARY TRANSITION PROVISIONS
for Sec. 14: See Appendix, Note 1.)
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