Journal of the Senate of the State of Texas, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature, Volume 1 Page: 67
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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1969
table, which shall be disposed of in
the following order:
(1) Special orders.
(2) Unfinished business.
(3) Senate Joint Resolutions.
(4) Senate Resolutions.
(5) Senate Concurrent Resolutions.
(6) Senate Bills on third reading.
(7) Senate Bills on second reading.
(8) House Joint Resolutions.
(9) House Bills on third reading.
(10) House Bills on second reading.
(11) House Concurrent Resolutions.
The above order is for Senate Bill
days, except as modified by the Joint
Rules.
HOUSE BILL DAYS
14. After the Morning Call has been
concluded on calendar Wednesday and
calendar Thursday of each week,
House Joint Resolutions and House
Bills on special order and on third
and second readings, respectively, and
House Concurrent Resolutions, shall
be taken up and considered until dis-
posed of; provided in case one should
be pending at adjournment on Thurs-
day, it shall go over until the succeed-
ing calendar Wednesday as unfinished
business.
SPECIAL ORDERS
15. Any bill, resolution or other
measure may, on any day, be made a
special order for a future time of the
session by an affirmative vote of two-
thirds of the Members present.
A special order shall be considered
at the time for which it is set and
considered from day to day until dis-
posed of, unless at the time so fixed
there is pending business under a spe-
cial order, but such pending business
may be suspended by a two-thirds
vote of all the Members present. If a
special order is not reached or con-
sidered at the time fixed, it shall not
lose its place as a special order; pro-
vided further that all snecial orders
shall be subject to the Joint Rules and
Senate Rule 14.
DECORUM AND DEBATE
16. When a Senator is about to
speak in debate or to communicate any
matter to the Senate, he shall rise in
his place and address the President.
RECOGNITION OF MEMBERS IN
DEBATE
17. When two or more Members
rise at once, the Presiding Officer shall
decide which one shall speak first, butfrom his decision an appeal without
debate may be taken to the Senate by
any Member.
SPEAKING MORE THAN ONCE IN
SINGLE DEBATE
18. No Member shall speak more
than once in any one debate until ev-
ery Member desiring to do so shall
have spoken, nor shall any Member
speak more than twice in any one de-
bate without leave of the Senate.
MEMBER CALLED TO ORDER
19. When a Member shall be called
to order by the President, or by a
Senator, he shall sit down and not be
allowed to speak, except to the point
of order, until the question of order
is decided. If the decision be in his
favor he shall be at liberty to pro-
ceed; if otherwise, he shall not pro-
ceed without leave of the Senate.
REFUSAL OF MEMBER CALLED
TO ORDER TO BE SEATED
20. Whenever a Member is called
to order by the President of the Sen-
ate, or by the Presiding Officer then
in the Chair, in accordance with Rule
19 hereof, and such Member fails to
sit down and be in order, but con-
tinues disorderly, it shall be the duty
of the Sergeant-at-Arms and/or his
assistants upon the direction of the
Presiding Officer to require such re-
calcitrant Member to take his seat
and be in order. Any Member who
persists in disorderly conduct, after
being warned by the Presiding Officer,
may, by motion duly made and carried
by two-thirds vote of the Members in
attendance, be required to purge him-
self of such misconduct and until such
Member has purged himself of such
misconduct he shall not be entitled to
the privileges of the floor.
RULINGS BY PRESIDENT
21. Every question of order shall
in the first instance be decided by the
President, from whose decision any
Member may appeal to the Senate.
INTERRUPTION OF PRESIDENT
22. While the President is putting
the question or addressing the Senate,
he shall not be interrupted.
INTERRUPTION OF MEMBER
SPEAKING
23. While a Member has the floor,
no Member shall interrupt him or67
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. Journal of the Senate of the State of Texas, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature, Volume 1, legislative document, 1969; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth145999/m1/67/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.