Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 71
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the foregoing, and to the extent necessary for orderly transaction of business,
each committee may promulgate and adopt additional rules and procedures by
which it will function.
(b) No standing committee, including a calendars committee, or any
subcommittee, shall adopt any rule of procedure, including but not limited to an
automatic subcommittee rule, which will have the effect of thwarting the will of
the majority of the committee or subcommittee or denying the committee or
subcommittee the right to ultimately dispose of any pending matter by action of a
majority of the committee or subcommittee. A bill or resolution may not be laid
on the table subject to call in committee without a majority vote of the committee.
Sec. 14. APPEALS FROM RULINGS OF THE CHAIR. Appeals from
rulings of the chair of a committee shall be in order if seconded by three members
of the committee, which may include the member making the appeal. Procedure
in committee following an appeal which has been seconded shall be the same as
the procedure followed in the house in a similar situation.
Sec. 15. PREVIOUS QUESTION. Before the previous question can be
ordered in a committee, the motion therefor must be seconded by not less than 4
members of a committee consisting of 21 or more members, 3 members of a
committee consisting of less than 21 members and more than 10 members, or 2
members of a committee consisting of 10 members or less. If the motion is
properly seconded and ordered by a majority vote of the committee, further
debate on the proposition under consideration shall be terminated, and the
proposition shall be immediately put to a vote of the committee for its action.
Sec. 16. QUORUM. A majority of a committee shall constitute a quorum.
No action or recommendation of a committee shall be valid unless taken at a
meeting of the committee with a quorum actually present, and the committee
minutes shall reflect the names of those members of the committee who were
actually present. No committee report shall be made to the house nor shall bills or
resolutions be placed on a calendar unless ordered by a majority of the
membership of the committee, except as otherwise provided in the rules, and a
quorum of the committee must be present when the vote is taken on reporting a
bill or resolution, on placing bills or resolutions on a calendar, or on taking any
other formal action within the authority of the committee. No committee report
shall be made nor shall bills or resolutions be placed on a calendar except by
record vote of the members of the committee, with the yeas and nays to be
recorded in the minutes of the committee. Proxies cannot be used in committees.
Sec. 17. MOVING A CALL OF A COMMITTEE. (a) It shall be in order
to move a call of a committee at any time to secure and maintain a quorum for
any one or more of the following purposes:
(1) for the consideration of a specific bill, resolution, or other matter;
(2) for a definite period of time; or
(3) for the consideration of any designated class of bills or other
matters.
(b) When a call of a committee is moved for one or more of the foregoing
purposes and seconded by two members, one of whom may be the chair, and is
ordered by a majority of the members present, no member shall thereafter beThursday, January 13, 2005 HOUSE JOURNAL
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1, legislative document, 2005; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth97462/m1/75/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.