Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 92
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79th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
erroneously announced in such a way as to change the true result, all subsequent
proceedings in connection therewith shall fail, and the journal shall be amended
accordingly.
RULE 6. ORDER OF BUSINESS AND CALENDARS
Sec. 1. DAILY ORDER OF BUSINESS. (a) When the house convenes on
a new legislative day, the daily order of business shall be as follows:
(1) Call to order by speaker.
(2) Registration of members.
(3) Prayer by chaplain, unless the invocation has been given previously
on the particular calendar day.
(4) Excuses for absence of members and officers.
(5) First reading and reference to committee of bills filed with the chief
clerk; and motions to introduce bills, when such motions are required.
(6) Requests to print bills and other papers; requests of committees for
further time to consider papers referred to them; and all other routine motions and
business not otherwise provided for, all of which shall be undebatable except that
the mover and one opponent of the motion shall be allowed three minutes each.
The mover of a routine motion shall be allowed his or her choice of making
the opening or the closing speech under this rule. If the house, under a suspension
of the rules, extends the time of a member under this rule, such extensions shall
be for three minutes. Subsidiary motions that are applicable to routine motions
shall be in order, but the makers of such subsidiary motions shall not be entitled
to speak thereon in the routine motion period, nor shall the authors of the original
routine motions be allowed any additional time because of subsidiary motions.
(7) Unfinished business.
(8) Postponed matters to be laid before the house in accordance with
Rule 7, Section 15.
(9) Calendars of the house in their order of priority in accordance with
Section 7 of this rule, unless a different order is determined under other
provisions of these rules.
(b) When the house reconvenes for the first time on a new calendar day
following a recess, the daily order of business shall be:
(1) Call to order by the speaker.
(2) Registration of members.
(3) Prayer by the chaplain.
(4) Excuses for absence of members and officers.
(5) Pending business.
(6) Calendars of the house in their order of priority in accordance with
Section 7 of this rule, unless a different order is determined under other
provisions of these rules.
Sec. 2. SPECIAL ORDERS. (a) Any bill, resolution, or other measure
may on any day be made a special order for the same day or for a future day of
the session by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present. A motion
to set a special order shall be subject to the three-minute pro and con debate rule.92
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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/m1/96/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.