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: 40
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62nd LEGISLATURE-2nd CALLED SESSION
35. All conference committee reports on bills other than the General
Appropriations Bill, and tax, reapportionment and recodification bills must
be reproduced and a copy thereof furnished to each member at least
twenty-four hours before any action thereon can be taken by either House;
provided, however, that the twenty-four hour delay on action by either
House, as herein provided, shall not apply during the last forty-eight hours
of any session.
36. Each conference committee report, regardless of its subject mat-
ter, must have attached thereto a section by section analysis showing the
disagreements which have been resolved by the conference committee.
This analysis must show, for each and every disagreement, in parallel
columns: (1) the substance of the House version, (2) the substance of the
Senate version, and (3) the substance of the recommendation thereon by
the conference committee. No action shall be taken by either House on
any conference committee report in the absence of such an analysis except
by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present, with the yeas
and nays thereon to be recorded in the Journal of such House.
37. The presiding officer of each House shall rule out of order any
conference committee report made or which is in violation of any of the
provisions and limitations contained in the Joint Rules.
38. Each conference committee report, regardless of its subject mat-
ter, shall be printed only once in the Journal, such printing to be deter-
mined as follows: (1) if the conference committee report involves a House
bill, such report shall be printed in the House Journal and not in the Sen-
ate Journal; and (2) if the conference committee report involves a Sen-
ate bill, such report shall be printed in the Senate Journal and not in the
House Journal.
ENROLLING AND SIGNING BILLS
39. After a bill shall have passed both Houses, it shall be duly en-
rolled including all proper endorsements, following which it shall be ex-
amined by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administration, hereinafter
created. The Joint Committee shall carefully compare the enrolled bill
with the drafts of such bill as passed by the respective Houses, correct
any and all errors made in the enrollment thereof, and report thereon to
the respective Houses. Such report shall be accompanied by a copy of the
bill and shall, except for local bills, be printed in the Journal of the House
in which such bill originated.
40. There is hereby created the Joint Legislative Committee on Ad-
ministration whose membership shall consist of five members of the Sen-
ate named by the President who are also members of the Senate Committee
on Rules and five members of the House named by the Speaker who are
also members of the House Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills.
During each two-year period beginning in January immediately following
an election for President of the United States, the Chairman of the House
Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills shall be Chairman, and the
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules shall be Vice-Chairman, of
the Joint Committee, which positions shall be reversed in the subsequent
two-year period in such manner that the Chairman of the Joint Committee
shall alternately be a member of the Senate for two years and then a mem-
ber of the House for two years, with the Vice-Chairman in each instance
to be a member of the other House. The Joint Committee shall conduct
studies of various phases of legislative administration, such as printing,
enrolling and engrossing, and status reporting, to determine the feasibility
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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/m1/41/: accessed May 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.