Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 50
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50 HOUSE JOURNAL
Section 8. Amendments to the cap-
tion of a bill or resolution shall not
be in order until all other proposed
amendments shall have been acted
upon and the House be ready to vote
upon the passing of the measure, and
the same shall be decided without de-
bate.
Section 9. If the previous question
has been ordered on a bill or joint
resolution, an amendment to the cap-
tion of a bill or a joint resolution
may be offered and voted on immedi-
ately preceding the final vote on the
bill or joint resolution at any reading.
Section 10. When an amendment is
adopted, such action shall be certified
by the Chief Clerk on the amend-
ment, and the official copy thereof
shall then be securely attached to
the bill or resolution which it amends.
Section 11. There shall be a mo-
tion to limit amendments, which shall
be admitted only when seconded by
twenty-five members. The motion
may take either of two forms: (1)
to limit amendments to those pend-
ing before the House, or (2) to
limit amendments to those pending
on the Speaker's desk. The mo-
tion shall be put by the Chair in
this manner: "The motion has been
seconded. Three minutes pro and con
debate will be allowed on the motion
to limit amendments." As soon as the
debate has ended, the Chair shall con-
tinue: "As many as are in favor of
limiting amendments on (here state
on which question or questions) will
say 'Aye'," and then "As many as are
opposed say 'Nay'." As in all other
propositions, a motion to limit amend-
ments may be taken by a record vote
if demanded by three members. If
ordered by a majority of the mem-
bers voting, a quorum being present,
it shall have the effect of confining
further debate and consideration to
those amendments included within the
motion, and thereafter the Chair will
accept no more amendments to the
proposition to which the motion was
made.
Section 12. The motion to limit
amendments, if adopted, shall not in
any way cut off or limit debate or
other parliamentary maneuvers on
the pending proposition or proposi-
tions or amendment or amendments
included within such motion, its sole
function being to prevent the Chair
from accepting further amendmentsto the proposition to which the mo-
tion is applied.
Section 13. The motion to limit
amendments is not subject to a mo-
tion to table.
Section 14. If the motion to limit
amendments is adopted with respect
to a particular proposition or amend-
ment, it shall not be in order for the
Chair to accept further amendments
to such proposition or amendment,
as the case may be; however, such
amendments as are included within
the motion to limit amendments shall
each be subject to amendment, if
otherwise permitted under these rules.
Section 15. Except as otherwise pro-
vided herein, the motion to limit
amendments shall have no effect upon
the parliamentary situation to which
the motion is applied, and the matter
to which such motion is applied shall
continue to be considered by the House
in all other respects as though such
motion had not been made.
RULE XXI
OF COMMITTEES OF THE
WHOLE HOUSE
Section 1. The House may resolve
itself into a Committee of the Whole
House to consider any matter refer-
red to it by the House. In form-
ing a Committee of the Whole House,
the Speaker shall vacate the Chair,
and shall appoint a Chairman to pre-
side in committee.
Section 2. A bill committed to a
Committee of the Whole House shall
be handled in the same manner as
would be the case in any other com-
mittee. The body of the bill shall not
be defaced or interlined, but all
amendments shall be duly endorsed
by the Chief Clerk as they are adopt-
ed by the Committee, and so reported
to the House. When a bill is reported
by the Committee of the Whole
House, it shall be referred imme-
diately to the Committee on Rules
for assignment to the appropriate cal-
endar, and shall follow the same
procedure as any other bill on com-
mittee report.
Section 3. In the event that the
Committee of the Whole, at any
sitting, shall for want of time, fail
to complete its work on any bill or
resolution under consideration, or de-
sire to take any action thereon per-
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