Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 83
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Sec. 4. FAILURE TO ANSWER ROLL CALL. Any member who is
present and fails or refuses to record on a roll call after being requested to do so
by the speaker shall be recorded as present by the speaker and shall be counted
for the purpose of making a quorum.
Sec. 5. POINT OF ORDER OF "NO QUORUM." (a) The point of order of
"No Quorum" shall not be accepted by the chair if the last roll call showed the
presence of a quorum, provided the last roll call was taken within two hours of
the time the point of order is raised.
(b) If the last roll call was taken more than two hours before the point of
order is raised, it shall be in order for the member who raised the point of order to
request a roll call. Such a request must be seconded by 25 members. If the request
for a roll call is properly seconded, the chair shall order a roll call.
(c) Once a point of order has been made that a quorum is not present, it may
not be withdrawn after the absence of a quorum has been ascertained and
announced.
Sec. 6. MOTIONS IN ORDER WHEN QUORUM NOT PRESENT. If a
registration or record vote reveals that a quorum is not present, only a motion to
adjourn or a motion for a call of the house and the motions incidental thereto shall
be in order.
Sec. 7. MOTION FOR CALL OF THE HOUSE. It shall be in order to
move a call of the house at any time to secure and maintain a quorum for one of
the following purposes:
(1) for the consideration of a specific bill, resolution, motion, or other
measure;
(2) for the consideration of any designated class of bills; or
(3) for a definite period of time.
Motions for, and incidental to, a call of the house are not debatable.
Sec. 8. SECURING A QUORUM. When a call of the house is moved for
one of the above purposes and seconded by 15 members (of whom the speaker
may be one) and ordered by a majority vote, the main entrance to the hall and all
other doors leading out of the hall shall be locked and no member permitted to
leave the house without the written permission of the speaker. The names of
members present shall be recorded. All absentees for whom no sufficient excuse
is made may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent for and arrested,
wherever they may be found, by the sergeant-at-arms or an officer appointed by
the sergeant-at-arms for that purpose, and their attendance shall be secured and
retained. The house shall determine on what conditions they shall be discharged.
Members who voluntarily appear shall, unless the house otherwise directs, be
immediately admitted to the hall of the house and shall report their names to the
clerk to be entered in the journal as present.
Until a quorum appears, should the roll call fail to show one present, no
business shall be transacted, except to compel the attendance of absent members
or to adjourn. It shall not be in order to recess under a call of the house.
Sec. 9. FOLLOWING ACHIEVEMENT OF A QUORUM. When a
quorum is shown to be present, the house may proceed with the matters on which
the call was ordered, or may enforce the call and await the attendance of as manyThursday, January 13, 2005 HOUSE JOURNAL
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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/m1/87/?q=%222005-01-11%22&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.