Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 25
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January 10, 1967
HOUSE JOURNAL 25
bill, resolution or other paper shall
have been in committee for six cal-
endar days, exclusive of the calendar
day on which it was referred, it shall
be in order for a member to move
that the committee be required to re-
port the same within seven calendar
days, which motion shall require a
majority vote for its passage.
A motion to instruct a committee
to report is not a privileged motion
and must be made during the routine
motion period unless made under a
suspension of the rules.
The House shall have xno authority
to instruct a subcommittee directly;
however, instructions recognized un-
der the Rules may be given to a com-
mittee and shall be binding on all
subcommittees thereof.
Section 21. During the first seven-
ty-six calendar days of a Regular
Session when any bill, resolution or
other paper shall have been in com-
mittee for six calendar days after
such committee was instructed by the
House to report such bill, resolution,
or other paper by a motion made
under Section 20 of this Rule, it shall
be in order for a member to move to
rerefer such bill, resolution or other
paper to a different committee, which
motion shall require a two-thirds vote
for its passage.
After the first seventy-six calen-
dar days of a Regular Session, when
any bill, resolution or other paper
shall have been in committee for six
calendar days after such committee
has been instructed to report such
bill, resolution or other paper by a
motion made under Section 20 of
this Rule, it shall be in order for a
member to move to rerefer such bill,
resolution, or other paper to a dif-
ferent committee, which motion shall
require a majority vote for its pas-
sage.
A motion to rerefer a bill, resolu-
tion or other paper from one com-
mittee to another committee is not a
privileged motion and must be made
during the routine motion period un-
less made under a suspension of the
Rules.
Section 22. Reports of standing
committees shall be made in dupli-
cate, one of which shall be filed with
the Journal Clerk for printing in theJournal and the other shall accom-
pany the original bill.
Section 23. Reports of select com-
mittees shall be filed with the Chief
Clerk and printed in the Journal, un-
less otherwise determined by the
House.
Section 24. All committee reports
must be in writing. Each report must
be signed by the Chairman, or the
member acting as Chairman, and ad-
dressed to the Speaker, and shall con-
tain a statement of the recommenda-
tions of the committee with reference
to the matter which is the subject of
the report.
Section 25. Each committee report
on a bill or joint resolution, and to
the extent deemed necessary by the
Committee, on simple and concurrent
resolutions, except those pertaining to
recodification bills and to the General
Appropriations Bill, must include in
summary form a detailed analysis of
the subject matter of the bill or reso-
lution, specifically including (1) back-
ground information on the proposal,
(2) what the bill or resolution pro-
poses to do, (3) a section by section
analysis of the content of the bill or
resolution, and (4) a summary of the
committee hearing on such bill or res-
olution.
Section 26. All committee reports
on bills or resolutions shall be im-
mediately referred to the Committee
on Rules for assignment of the bill or
resolution to a calendar and for the
application of an appropriate rule for
House consideration.
Section 27. No minority report shall
be recognized by the House unless it
has been signed by not less than four
members of a committee consisting
of twenty-one members, three mem-
bers of a committee consisting of fif-
teen or eleven members, or two mem-
bers of a committee consisting of
seven or five members. Only members
who were present when the vote was
taken on the bill, resolution or other
matter being reported, and who voted
on the losing side, may sign a minor-
ity report. Notice of intention to file
a minority report shall be given to
the committee assembled at the time
of the vote on the bill, resolution, or
other matter, and before the recess
or adjournment of the committee, pro-
vided ample opportunity is affordedHOUSE JOURNAL
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1967; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193874/m1/29/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.