Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 9
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HR 2
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of Texas,
that, in accordance with Section 9(b), Article III, Texas Constitution, the House
of Representatives of the 79th Legislature shall elect a speaker of the house from
its own membership as follows:
SECTION 1. NOMINATIONS. (a) The secretary of state shall call for
nominations from the floor for the election of speaker of the house of
representatives and shall recognize every member who desires to make a
nomination.
(b) Each member recognized for this purpose shall immediately advance to
the front microphone and make the nomination in a nominating speech not to
exceed five minutes in length.
(c) After all nominations have been made, the secretary of state shall
declare nominations to be closed.
SECTION 2. SECONDS. (a) A person is not considered a nominee unless
the nomination is seconded by at least one member.
(b) One seconding speech shall be allowed for each nomination in the order
in which nominations were made, then other seconding speeches shall be allowed
in rotation in the same order.
(c) No more than five seconding speeches shall be allowed for each
nominee.
(d) A seconding speech may not exceed three minutes in length.
SECTION 3. VOTING. All votes taken shall be record votes entered in the
House Journal.
SECTION 4. RESULTS; RUNOFF. (a) The secretary of state shall
announce the results of the election. If a nominee has received a majority of the
votes cast, the secretary of state shall declare that nominee to be elected to the
office of speaker of the house of representatives.
(b) If no nominee has received a majority of the votes cast, the two
nominees receiving the largest number of votes in the first ballot shall be in a
runoff election conducted in accordance with the voting procedures for the first
ballot. The secretary of state shall announce the results of the runoff election and
declare the nominee receiving the higher vote to be elected.
SECTION 5. OATH. After the election, the secretary of state shall direct
the administration of the oath of office to the speaker-elect. The speaker shall take
the chair immediately after taking the oath of office.
HR 2 was read and was adopted.
ELECTION OF THE SPEAKER OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The secretary of state announced that the next order of business would be
the election of the speaker of the House of Representatives of the Seventy-Ninth
Legislature of the State of Texas, and stated nominations for speaker would now
be in order.Tuesday, January 11, 2005 HOUSE JOURNAL
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