Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of the Seventy-Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas, Volume 1 Page: 94
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79th LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION
(4) GENERAL STATE CALENDAR, on which shall appear bills of
statewide effect, not emergency in nature, which establish or change state law and
which have application to all areas but are limited in legal effect by classification
or other factors which minimize the impact to something less than major state
policy, and bills, not emergency in nature, which are not on the local, consent,
and resolutions calendar.
(5) LOCAL, CONSENT, AND RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR, on
which shall appear bills, house resolutions, and concurrent resolutions, not
emergency in nature, regardless of extent and scope, on which there is such
general agreement as to render improbable any opposition to the consideration
and passage thereof, and which have been recommended by the appropriate
standing committee for placement on the local, consent, and resolutions calendar
by the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars.
(6) RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR, on which shall appear house
resolutions and concurrent resolutions, not emergency in nature and not
privileged.
(7) CONGRATULATORY AND MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS
CALENDAR, on which shall appear congratulatory and memorial resolutions
whose sole intent is to congratulate, memorialize, or otherwise express concern or
commendation. The Committee on Rules and Resolutions may provide separate
categories for congratulatory and memorial resolutions.
(b) A calendars committee shall strictly construe and the speaker shall
strictly enforce this system of calendars.
Sec. 8. SENATE BILL CALENDARS. (a) Senate bills and resolutions
pending in the house shall follow the same procedure with regard to calendars as
house bills and resolutions, but separate calendars shall be maintained for senate
bills and resolutions, and consideration of them on senate bill days shall have
priority in the manner and order specified in this rule.
(b) No other business shall be considered on days devoted to the
consideration of senate bills when there remain any bills on any of the senate
calendars, except with the consent of the senate. When all senate calendars are
clear, the house may proceed to consideration of house calendars on senate bill
days.
Sec. 9. SENATE BILL DAYS. (a) On calendar Wednesday and on
calendar Thursday of each week, only senate bills and senate resolutions shall be
taken up and considered, until disposed of. Senate bills and senate resolutions
shall be considered in the order prescribed in Section 7 of this rule on separate
senate calendars prepared by the Committee on Calendars. In case a senate bill or
senate resolution is pending at adjournment on calendar Thursday, it shall go over
to the succeeding calendar Wednesday as unfinished business.
(b) Precedence given in Rule 8 to certain classes of bills during the first 60
calendar days of a regular session shall also apply to senate bills on senate bill
days.
Sec. 10. CONSIDERATION OF SENATE BILL ON SAME
SUBJECT. When any house bill is reached on the calendar or is before the house
for consideration, it shall be the duty of the speaker to give the place on the94
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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/m1/98/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.