Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 92
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76th LEGISLATURE- REGULAR SESSION
(1) [it i ll bill dfid b Rle , Section 10(c);
[{-2] evidence of publication of notice in compliance with the Texas
Constitution and these rules is filed with the Committee on Local and
Consent Calendars; and
{ [-3)] it has been recommended unanimously by the present and
voting members of the committee from which it was reported that the bill be
sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars for placement on the
local, consent, and resolutions [an appropriate] calendar.
(b) [Nou ulaun at
shall be placed on the local calendr.
[{e)] No other bill or resolution shall be placed on [a] the local, consent
and resolutions calendar unless it has been recommended unanimously by
the present and voting members of the committee from which it was reported
that the bill be sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars for
placement on the local, consent, and resolutions inappropriatee] calendar.
[(d) No resol uton shall be placed on a resolu tons calendar by the
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it Was reported that the resoltton be sent to the Committee on Local and
Sec. 24. REPLACEMENT OF CONTESTED BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
A bill or resolution once removed from the [a] local, consent, and resolutions
calendar[, 0113611t Lalldal, oui ulutions calendar ] shall be returned to the
Committee on Local and Consent Calendars for further action. The
Committee on Local and Consent Calendars, if it feels such action is
warranted, may again place the bill or resolution on the [a] local, consent,
and resolutions calendar, [consent calendar o eolton calenda,]provided,
however, that if the bill or resolution is not placed on [a calendar of] the next
local, consent, and resolutions calendar set by the Committee on Local and
Consent Calendars, the bill or resolution shall immediately be referred to the
Committee on Calendars for further action. If the bill or resolution is then
removed from the calendar a second time by being contested on the floor of
the house, the bill or resolution shall not again be placed on the [a] local,
consent, and resolutions calendar[, consent Lall.dal, U teoUtio,, c.alenda]
by the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars during that session of the
legislature but shall be returned to the Committee on Calendars for further
action.
Sec. 25. DISCRETION IN PLACEMENT ON CALENDARS. Subject to
the limitations contained in this rule, the Committee on Calendars shall have
full authority to make placements on calendars in whatever order is necessary
and desirable under the circumstances then existing, except that bills on third
reading on a particular calendar shall have precedence over bills on second
reading on the same calendar. It is the intent of the calendar system to give
the Committee on Calendars wide discretion to insure adequate consideration
by the house of important legislation.92
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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/m1/96/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.