Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 52
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52 HOUSE JOURNAL
cussions and their actions to the mat-
ters in disagreement between the two
Houses. Since the adjustment of one
district in a reapportionment bill will
inevitably affect other districts there-
in, the strict rule of construction im-
posed on other conference committees
must be relaxed somewhat where re-
apportionment bills are involved. Ac-
cordingly, the following authority and
limitations shall apply only to confer-
ence committees on reapportionment
bills:
(a) If the matters in disagreement
affect only certain districts, and oth-
er districts are identical in both
House and Senate versions of the
bill, the conference committee shall
make adjustments only in those dist-
ricts whose rearrangement is essen-
tial to the effective resolving of the
matters in disagreement. All other
districts shall remain unchanged.
(b) If the matters in disagreement
permeate the entire bill and affect
most, if not all, of the districts there-
in, the conference committee shall
have wide discretion in rearranging
the districts to the extent necessary
to resolve all differences between the
two Houses.
(c) Insofar as the actual structure
of the districts is concerned, and
only to this extent, the provisions of
Section 9 of this rule shall not apply
to conference committees on reap-
portionment bills.
Section 13. Conference committees
on recodification bills, like other con-
ference committees, shall limit their
discussions and their actions solely
to the matters in disagreement be-
tween the two Houses. The compre-
hensive and complicated nature of re-
codification bills makes necessary the
relaxing of the strict rule of con-
struction imposed on other confer-
ence committees only to the follow-
ing extent:
(a) If it develops in conference com-
mittee that material has been inad-
vertently included in both House and
Senate versions which properly has
no place in such recodification, such
material may be omitted from the
conference report, if by such omission
the existing statute thereon is not
repealed, altered or amended.
(b) If it develops in conference com-
mittee that material has been inad-
vertently omitted from both Houseand Senate versions which properly
should be included if such recodifica-
tion is to achieve its purpose of being
all-inclusive of the statutes being re-
codified, such material may be added
to the conference report, if by such
addition the existing statute is merely
restated without substantive change in
existing law.
Section 14. Limitations imposed on
certain conference committees by the
provisions of Sections 10, 11, 12, and
13 of this rule may be suspended in
part, by permission of the House, to
enable consideration of and action on
a specific matter or matters which
otherwise would be in violation there-
of. Such permission shall be granted
only by resolution passed by a major-
ity vote of the House, with yeas and
nays thereon to be recorded in the
Journal. Such resolution shall specify
in detail: (1) the exact nature of
the matter or matters proposed to be
considered, (2) specific limitation or
limitations to be suspended thereby,
(3) specific action contemplated by
the conference committee thereon,
and (4) the reason why the suspension
of such limitations is being requested.
Permission thus granted shall sus-
pend such limitations only for the
matter or matters, and the bill, clear-
ly specified in the resolution, and
action of the conference committee
shall be in conformity therewith.
Section 15. A conference report is
not subject to amendment, but must
be accepted or rejected in its entirety.
While a conference report is pending,
a motion to deal with individual
amendments in disagreement is not
in order.
Section 16. All conference commit-
tee reports on appropriation bills, tax
bills, reapportionment bills, and re-
codification bills must be printed and
a copy thereof furnished to each mem-
ber at least forty-eight hours before
any action can be taken thereon by
the House.
Section 17. All conference commit-
tee reports on bills other than appro-
priations, tax, reapportionment and
recodification bills must be printed
and a copy thereof furnished to each
member at least twenty-four hours
before action thereon can be taken by
the House; provided, however, dur-
ing the last forty-eight hours of any
session it shall not be necessary for52
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Sixtieth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 1967; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193874/m1/56/?rotate=90: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.