Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 98
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79th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
majority of those members present and voting. If approved by the house in
accordance with this subsection, the rule will be effective for the consideration of
the bill or resolution on both second and third readings.
Sec. 17. POSITION ON A CALENDAR. Once a bill or resolution is
placed on its appropriate calendar under these rules, and has appeared on a house
calendar, as printed and distributed to all members, the bill shall retain its relative
position on the calendar until reached for floor consideration, and the calendars
committee with jurisdiction over the bill or resolution shall have no authority to
place other bills on the calendar ahead of that bill, but all additions to the calendar
shall appear subsequent to the bill.
Sec. 18. REQUIREMENTS FOR PLACEMENT ON A CALENDAR.
Except as provided in Section 11 of this rule as it relates to congratulatory and
memorial resolutions, no bill or resolution shall be placed on a calendar until:
(1) it has been referred to and reported from its appropriate standing
committee by favorable committee action; or
(2) it is ordered printed on minority report or after a committee has
reported its inability to recommend a course of action.
Sec. 19. REFERRAL TO CALENDARS COMMITTEES. All bills and
resolutions, on being reported from committee, shall be referred immediately to
the committee coordinator for printing and then to the appropriate calendars
committee for placement on the appropriate calendar.
Sec. 20. TIME LIMIT FOR VOTE TO PLACE ON A CALENDAR.
Within 30 calendar days after a bill or resolution has been referred to the
appropriate calendars committee, the committee must vote on whether to place
the bill or resolution on one of the calendars of the daily house calendar or the
local, consent, and resolutions calendar, as applicable. A vote against placement
of the bill or resolution on a calendar does not preclude a calendars committee
from later voting in favor of placement of the bill or resolution on a calendar.
Sec. 21. MOTION TO PLACE ON A CALENDAR. (a) When a bill or
resolution has been in the appropriate calendars committee for 30 calendar days,
exclusive of the calendar day on which it was referred, awaiting placement on
one of the calendars of the daily house calendar or on the local, consent, and
resolutions calendar, it shall be in order for a member to move that the bill or
resolution be placed on a specific calendar of the daily house calendar or on the
local, consent, and resolutions calendar without action by the committee. This
motion must be seconded by five members and shall require a majority vote for
adoption.
(b) A motion to place a bill or resolution on a specific calendar of the daily
house calendar or on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar is not a
privileged motion and must be made during the routine motion period unless
made under a suspension of the rules.
Sec. 22. REQUEST FOR PLACEMENT ON LOCAL, CONSENT, AND
RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR. No bill or resolution shall be considered for
placement on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar by the Committee on
Local and Consent Calendars unless a request for that placement has been made
to the chair of the standing committee from which the bill or resolution was98
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97462/m1/102/?q=%222005-01-11%22: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.