General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature Page: 36
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62nd LEGISLATURE-2nd CALLED SESSION
Joint Committee shall determine. If subcommittees are utilized by the
Joint Committee, each subcommittee shall consist of an equal number of
members from each House. The Chairman of the Joint Committee shall
schedule all such hearings, subject to approval by the Joint Committee,
and shall provide each member of the Joint Committee with a copy of such
schedule in advance of the date the first hearing is scheduled. All such
hearings shall be open to the public and press. The Chairman shall con-
duct the hearings in accordance with acceptable parliamentary proce-
dures, subject to such rules of procedure as the Joint Committee itself
may adopt. At the conclusion of such hearings, the Senate Finance Com-
mittee shall retire to draft its version of the General Appropriations Bill
and the House Appropriations Committee shall retire separately to draft
its version of the General Appropriations Bill.
21. In order to assure the continuation of financial support of exist-
ing State services through the consideration and passage of the General
Appropriations Bill, it shall not be in order during the first 120 days of
the regular session for the respective presiding officer to lay before
either House of the Legislature, or for either House or any committee
thereof, to consider, prior to the consideration, passage and certification
by the Comptroller of the General Appropriations Bill, any bill which
directly or indirectly:
1. Appropriates money from the State Treasury;
2. Prevents any money from entering the State Treasury;
3. Transfers, diverts or appropriates money in the State Treasury
from one fund to another fund except from a special fund into the General
Fund; or
4. Requires certification of the Comptroller under Article 3, Section
49a, of the Constitution.
The provisions of this Rule shall not apply to any bills appropriating
money for:
1. The payment of expenses of the Legislature;
2. The payment of judgments against the State; or
3. Any emergency matter when requested by the Governor in a formal
message to the Legislature.
The General Appropriations Bill shall be reported to the Senate by its
Finance Committee and to the House by its Appropriations Committee not
later than the seventieth calendar day of the Regular Session, and should
either fail to report by the deadline hereby imposed, this Rule shall be
suspended for the balance of that Regular Session.
FORM OF BILLS
22. To enable members of the Legislature to understand more fully
and more easily the nature and legal effect of matters under considera-
tion, all bills and resolutions shall conform to the following require-
ments:
(a) If a bill or resolution proposes to amend an existing portion of
the Constitution, a statute, or a legislative rule, the complete text of the
existing portion of such Constitution, statute or rule shall be quoted in
full.
(b) Language to be added to the existing portion of the Constitution,
statute or rule shall be inserted in its appropriate place in the text there-
of and shall be underlined.
(c) Language to be deleted from the existing portion of the Constitu-
tion, statute or rule shall be typed in solid capital letters and enclosed in
parentheses.
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Second, Third and Fourth Called Sessions of the Sixty-Second Legislature and the Regular Session of the Sixty-Third Legislature, legislative document, 1973; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221792/m1/37/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.