Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 93
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When once established as a special order, a bill, resolution, or other measure shall
be considered from day to day until disposed of; and until it has been disposed of,
no further special orders shall be made.
A three-fourths vote of the members present shall be required to suspend the
portion of this rule which specifies that only one special order may be made and
pending at a time.
(b) After the first six items under the daily order of business for a legislative
day have been passed, a special order shall have precedence when the hour for its
consideration has arrived, except as provided in Section 9 of this rule.
Sec. 3. POSTPONEMENT OF A SPECIAL ORDER. A special order may
be postponed to a day certain by a two-thirds vote of those present, and when so
postponed, shall be considered as disposed of so far as its place as a special order
is concerned.
Sec. 4. TABLED MEASURES AS SPECIAL ORDERS. A bill or
resolution laid on the table subject to call may be made a special order.
Sec. 5. SUBSTITUTION IN MOTION FOR A SPECIAL ORDER. When
a motion is pending to set a particular bill or resolution as a special order, it shall
not be in order to move as a substitute to set another bill or resolution as a special
order. It shall be in order, however, to substitute, by majority vote, a different
time for the special order consideration than that given in the original motion.
Sec. 6. MEMBER'S SUSPENSION AND SPECIAL ORDER
PRIVILEGES. If a member moves to set a bill or joint resolution as a special
order, or moves to suspend the rules to take up a bill or joint resolution out of its
regular order, and the motion prevails, the member shall not have the right to
make either of these motions again until every other member has had an
opportunity, via either of these motions, to have some bill or joint resolution
considered out of its regular order during that session of the legislature. A
member shall not lose the suspension privilege if the motion to suspend or set for
special order does not prevail.
Sec. 7. SYSTEM OF CALENDARS. (a) Legislative business of the house
shall be controlled by a system of calendars, consisting of the following:
(1) EMERGENCY CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills
considered to be of such pressing and imperative import as to demand immediate
action, bills to raise revenue and levy taxes, and the general appropriations bill. A
bill submitted as an emergency matter by the governor may also be placed on this
calendar.
(2) MAJOR STATE CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills of
statewide effect, not emergency in nature, which establish or change state policy
in a major field of governmental activity and which will have a major impact in
application throughout the state without regard to class, area, or other limiting
factors.
(3) CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CALENDAR, on which
shall appear joint resolutions proposing amendments to the Texas Constitution,
joint resolutions proposing the ratification of amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, and joint resolutions applying to Congress for a convention to
amend the Constitution of the United States.Thursday, January 13, 2005 HOUSE JOURNAL
3rd Day 93
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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/m1/97/?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.