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: 37
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RESOLUTIONS
(d) If the language to be added is to replace a part of the existing text,
the new language shall precede the existing text which is being replaced.
(e) If a portion of a word is being changed (such as correcting cap-
italization, spelling or punctuation), the entire word shall be replaced.
Such word shall first be inserted correctly and underlined, followed by
the word as it appears in existing text enclosed in parentheses.
23. If the proposal to amend an existing portion of the Constitution, a
statute or a legislative rule involves a complete redraft of the entire text
thereof, to the extent that it would confuse rather than clarify to show,
additions and deletions, the foregoing rule will not apply; however, the
presiding officer of the group having such proposal under consideration
shall strictly construe the foregoing rule to achieve the purposes thereof.
24. Compliance with the foregoing two rules shall be required at all
stages of the legislative process except in the engrossing and enrolling of
the bill or resolution, when the underlining and the deleted text shall be
omitted.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
25. When a bill or resolution passed by one House is amended in the
other House, and the originating House fails to concur in the amendments,
the disagreement shall be resolved by a motion in the originating House
not to concur and to request the appointment of a conference committee.
Prompt notice of action on such motion shall be given to the other House
and included in such notice shall be the names of those named by the pre-
siding officer of the originating House as members of the conference com-
mittee. Upon the receipt of such request for a conference committee, the
receiving House shall promptly act thereon by motion to grant or not to
grant a conference committee. If the motion to grant prevails, such notice
shall include the names of the members of the conference committee
named by the presiding officer of the receiving House, whereupon the con-
ference committee shall be officially constituted and authorized to pro-
ceed with the business for which it was created.
26. In all conferences between the Senate and the House by commit-
tee, the number of committeemen from each House shall be five (5), and
all votes on matters of difference shall be taken by each committee sepa-
rately, and it shall require a majority of each committee to determine the
matter in dispute. Reports of conference committees must be signed by
a majority of each committee of the conference.
27. The members of the Conference Committee named by the presiding
officer of the originating House shall select one of their number to serve
as Chairman of the Conference Committee. The Chairman shall fix a
time and place for the Conference Committee to meet and shall give ade-
quate notice thereof to all members of the Conference Committee. The
committee shall meet at the appointed hour, confer freely on the matters
in disagreement and apply themselves diligently in an effort to reconcile
such differences. All meetings of Conference Committees shall be open
to the public and press and notice of the time and place of each meeting
of the Senate and House Conference Committees on Appropriations and
Taxation shall be posted in a convenient and conspicuous place near the
entrance of each House at least one hour before each meeting.
28. Conference committees shall limit their discussions and their
actions solely to the matters in disagreement between the two Houses.
A conference committee shall have no authority with respect to any bill
or resolution:
1. To change, alter, or amend text which is not in disagreement;
2. To omit text which is not in disagreement;
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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/m1/38/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.