Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 64
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76th LEGISLATURE- REGULAR SESSION
hearings and operations of each committee, including a calendars committee.
Subject to the foregoing, and to the extent necessary for orderly transaction
of business, each committee may promulgate and adopt additional rules and
procedures by which it will function.
(b) No standing committee, including a calendars committee, or any
subcommittee, shall adopt any rule of procedure, including but not limited
to an automatic subcommittee rule, which will have the effect of thwarting
the will of the majority of the committee or subcommittee or denying the
committee or subcommittee the right to ultimately dispose of any pending
matter by action of a majority of the committee or subcommittee. A bill or
resolution may not be laid on the table subject to call in committee without
a majority vote of the committee.
Sec. 14. APPEALS FROM RULINGS OF THE CHAIR. Appeals from
rulings of the chair of a committee shall be in order if seconded by three
members of the committee, which may include the member making the
appeal. Procedure in committee following an appeal which has been
seconded shall be the same as the procedure followed in the house in a
similar situation.
Sec. 15. PREVIOUS QUESTION. Before the previous question can be
ordered in a committee, the motion therefor must be seconded by not less
than 4 members of a committee consisting of 21 or more members, 3
members of a committee consisting of less than 21 members and more than
10 members, or 2 members of a committee consisting of 10 members or less.
If the motion is properly seconded and ordered by a majority vote of the
committee, further debate on the proposition under consideration shall be
terminated, and the proposition shall be immediately put to a vote of the
committee for its action.
Sec. 16. QUORUM. A majority of a committee shall constitute a quorum.
No action or recommendation of a committee shall be valid unless taken at
a meeting of the committee with a quorum actually present, and the
committee minutes shall reflect the names of those members of the committee
who were actually present. No committee report shall be made to the house
nor shall bills or resolutions be placed on a calendar unless ordered by a
majority of the membership of the committee, except as otherwise provided
in the rules, and a quorum of the committee must be present when the vote
is taken on reporting a bill or resolution, on placing bills or resolutions on
a calendar, or on taking any other formal action within the authority of the
committee. No committee report shall be made nor shall bills or resolutions
be placed on a calendar except by record vote of the members of the
committee, with the yeas and nays to be recorded in the minutes of the
committee. Proxies cannot be used in committees.
Sec. 17. MOVING A CALL OF A COMMITTEE. (a) It shall be in order
to move a call of a committee at any time to secure and maintain a quorum
for any one or more of the following purposes:
(1) for the consideration of a specific bill, resolution, or other matter;
(2) for a definite period of time; or
(3) for the consideration of any designated class of bills or other
matters.64
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1999; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97442/m1/68/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.