Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 100
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79th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar by the Committee on Local and
Consent Calendars during that session of the legislature but shall be returned to
the Committee on Calendars for further action.
Sec. 25. DISCRETION IN PLACEMENT ON CALENDARS. Subject to
the limitations contained in this rule, the Committee on Calendars shall have full
authority to make placements on calendars in whatever order is necessary and
desirable under the circumstances then existing, except that bills on third reading
on a particular calendar shall have precedence over bills on second reading on the
same calendar. It is the intent of the calendar system to give the Committee on
Calendars wide discretion to insure adequate consideration by the house of
important legislation.
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;100
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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/m1/104/?q=%222005-01-11%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.