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rules" shall be sufficient to suspend
every rule under which the House is
operating for a particular purpose
except the provisions of the Consti-
tution, the Statutes, and the Joint
Rules of the two Houses. If the Rules
have been suspended for a given pur-
pose, no other motion to suspend the
Rules shall be in order until the
original purpose has been accom-
plished.
Section 2. No standing rule of the
House shall be suspended except by an
affirmative vote of two-thirds of the
members present; provided, however,
that in case any particular rule shall
contain a specific provision showing
the vote by which said rule may be
suspended, such vote shall be required
for the suspension thereof and such
specific provision shall not be subject
to suspension under the provisions
of this rule; nor shall any other busi-
ness be considered on days devoted
by these rules to the consideration of
Senate bills except with the consent
of the Senate, when there remain any
bills on any of the Senate calendars.
When all Senate calendars are clear,
the House may proceed to a conside-
ration of House calendars on Senate
bill days.
Section 3. The Speaker shall not
entertain a motion to suspend the
order of business established by the
Rules for the purpose of taking up
and considering any bill, resolution
or other measure out of its regular
order, except on calendar Monday of
each week, and during the first six
of the last eight calendar days of a
session, Sundays excepted; provided,
however, that during the first six of
the last eight calendar days of a
session, a two-thirds vote shall be
required to suspend the regular order
of business and take up any measure.
Section 4. When a request is made
on calendar Monday to suspend the
order of business for the purpose of
taking up any bill, resolution or other
measure out of its regular order, the
caption shall be read and the author
shall be allowed three minutes to
explain the bill and one other membe-
shall be allowed three minutes in
opposition thereto. The Speaker shall
then ask if there is objection to its
consideration. If there is no objec-
tion, the bill shall be before the House
for consideration. If there is objec-

tion, the Speaker shall, without
further debate, put the motion to the
House, and if carried by a majority
vote, the regular order of business
shall be considered suspended for the
purpose of taking up and considering
the bill, resolution or other measure.
Section 5. The order of business re-
ferred to in the preceding sections of
this rule shall be considered the busi-
ness on the Speaker's desk as pre-
cribed in the eleventh item of Sec-
tion 1 of Rule XXII.
Section 6. Any measure taken up
under suspension and not disposed of
on the same day shall go over as
pending or unfinished business, as the
case may be, of the next day the
House is in session, and shall be con-
sidered thereafter from day to day
(except the days used for the con-
sideration of Senate bills) until dis-
posed of. In case a bill goes over as
"unfinished business" to a suspen-
sion day, as it would in case of an
adjournment, it shall be disposed of
before the suspension calendar is
taken up, in compliance with the
ninth item of the daily order of busi-
ness for a legislative day. In case a
bill goes over as "pending business"
to a suspension day, as it would in
case of a recess, the suspension calen-
dar shall have priority over such
pending business.
Section 7. If a member shall move
to set a bill as a special order, or move
to suspend the rules to take up a bill
out of its regular order, and said
motion prevails, such member shall
not have the right thereafter to make
either of these motions, or to move
to suspend the regular order of busi-
ness on calendar Monday to consider
a bill out of its regular order, until
every other member has had an op-
portunity to have considered, via
either of these three motions, some
bill out of its regular order during
that session of the Legislature. A
member shall not lose his suspension
privilege if his motion to suspend or
set for special order does not prevail.
section 8. Any bill, resolution or
other measure may on any day be
made a special order for the same day
or for a future day of the session by
an affirmative vote of two-thirds of
the members present. When once es-
tablished as a special order, a bill,
resolution or other measure shall be

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