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: 39
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RESOLUTIONS
trict in a reapportionment bill will inevitably affect other districts therein,
the strict rule of construction imposed on other conference committees
must be relaxed somewhat when reapportionment bills are involved.
Accordingly, the following authority and limitations shall apply only to
conference committees on reapportionment bills:
1. If the matters in disagreement affect only certain districts, and
other districts are identical in both House and Senate versions of the bill,
the Conference Committee shall make adjustments only in those districts
whose rearrangement is essential to the effective resolving of the matters
in disagreement. All other districts shall remain unchanged.
2. If the matters in disagreement permeate the entire bill and affect
most, if not all, of the districts therein, the Conference Committee shall
have wide discretion in rearranging the districts to the extent necessary to
resolve all differences between the two Houses.
3. Insofar as the actual structure of the districts is concerned, and
only to that extent, the provisions of Joint Rule 28 shall not apply to con-
ference committees on reapportionment bills.
32. Conference committees on recodification bills, like other con-
ference committees, shall limit their discussions and their actions solely to
the matters in disagreement between the two Houses. The comprehensive
and complicated nature of recodification bills makes necessary the re-
laxing of the strict rule of construction imposed on other conference com-
mittees only to the following extent:
1. If it develops in conference committee that material has been in-
advertently included in both House and Senate versions which properly
has no place in such recodification, such material may be omitted from
the Conference Report, if by such omission the existing statute thereon is
not repealed, altered or amended.
2. If it develops in conference committee that material has been in-
advertently omitted from both the House and Senate version which proper-
ly should be included if such recodification is to achieve its purpose of
being all-inclusive of the statutes being recodified, such material may be
added to the Conference Report, if by such addition the existing statute is
merely restated without substantive change in existing law.
33. Limitations imposed on certain conference committees by the pro-
visions of Joint Rules 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 may be suspended in part, by
permission of both Houses, to enable consideration of and action on a
specific matter or matters which otherwise would be in violation thereof.
Such permission shall be granted only by concurrent resolutions passed by
majority vote in each House, with yeas and nays thereon to be recorded
in the Journals of the respective Houses. Such concurrent resolution
shall specify in detail: (1) the exact nature of the matter or matters
proposed to be considered, (2) the specific limitation or limitations to be
suspended thereby, (3) the specific action contemplated by the Conference
Committee thereon, and (4) the reasons why suspension of such limita-
tions is being requested. Permission thus granted shall suspend such
limitations only for the matter or matters clearly specified in the resolu-
tion, and action of the Conference Committee shall be in conformity there-
with.
34. All conference committee reports on the General Appropriations
Bill, tax bills, reapportionment bills, and recodification bills must be re-
produced and a copy thereof furnished to each member at least forty-eight
hours before any action thereon can be taken by either House, if convened
in Regular Session, or twenty-four hours if convened in a Called Session.
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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/m1/40/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.