Journal of the Senate of the State of Texas, Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature, Volume 1 Page: 71
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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1969
RECOMMENDATIONS OF
COMMITTEES
50. All reports of standing com-
mittees shall be advisory only, except
that a recommendation in a report
that a bill which is a local bill be not
printed shall be effective as an order
of the Senate that the bill be not
printed. A recommendation in a re-
port that a bill which is a general bill
be not printed shall be advisory only,
and the bill shall nevertheless be
printed unless the Senate on the same
day or the next legislative day orders
the bill not printed. Bills and resolu-
tions shall be considered on second
reading and shall be listed on the
daily calendars of bills and resolutions
on the President's table for second
reading in the order in which the
Committee reports on them are sub-
mitted to the Senate.
MOTIONS TO REFER OR COMMIT
51. Any bill, petition or resolution
may be referred from one committee
or subcommittee to another commit-
tee or subcommittee, or committed to
any committee or subcommittee at
any stage of the proceeding on such
bill, petition or resolution by a ma-
jority vote of the Members elected
to the Senate. A bill or joint resolu-
tion committed to a committee or sub-
committee while on third reading shall
be considered as on its second reading
if reported favorably back to the
Senate.
When several motions shall be made
for reference of a subject to a com-
mittee, they shall have the preference
in the following order:
First: To a Committee of the Whole
Senate.
Second: To a Standing Committee.
Third: To a Select Committee.
RECONSIDERATION
52. After a question shall have
been decided, either in the affirma-
tive or negative, any Member voting
with the prevailing side may, at any
time on the same legislative day in
which the vote was taken or on the
next legislative day, move the recon-
sideration thereof. If the motion to
reconsider is made on the next legis-
lative day, said motion must be made
under Item (8) of Rule 12. When a
bill, resolution, report, amendment,
order or message upon which a votewas taken shall have gone out of the
possession of the Senate and have been
delivered to the House of Representa-
tives, or to the Governor, the motion
to reconsider shall be accompanied by
a motion to request the House or the
Governor to return same, which last
motion shall be acted upon, and if
determined in the negative shall be a
final disposition of the motion to re-
consider. If the motion to request the
House to return same is successful,
the motion to reconsider shall then be
acted upon and if sustained, the bill,
resolution, report, amendment, order
or message upon which the vote was
taken and which vote was reconsid-
ered, shall be placed upon the cal-
endar as unfinished business and may
be called up on the first appropriate
day on or after the return of same to
the possession of the Senate.
SPREADING MOTION TO RE-
CONSIDER ON JOURNAL
53. At any time before the expi-
ration of the next legislative day fol-
lowing that on which the vote was
taken, a motion to reconsider a vote
may be made by any Senator who is
permitted by Rule 52 to make it; and
the maker of the motion may accom-
pany it with a request that it be
spread on the Journal to be called up
and acted on at a later time, which
request shall be granted unless an-
other Senator demands immediate ac-
tion thereon. In case a motion to re-
consider that has been spread upon
the Journal is not called up to be
acted on by the Senate within five
legislative days after it has been
made, it shall not thereafter be called
up or acted upon; and any such mo-
tion that has been made during the
last six days of the session that has
not been called up before the final
twenty-four hours of the session shall
not thereafter be called up or acted
upon by the Senate. In all cases, a mo-
tion to reconsider shall be decided by
a majority of the vote.
READING OF PAPERS
54. When the reading of a paper is
called for, and the same is objected
to by any Member, it shall be deter-
mined by a majority vote of the Sen-
ate, and without debate.
MODE OF STATING AND VOTING
UPON QUESTIONS
55. All questions shall be distinctly71
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