HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.17
(By Delegate Trump)
Amending the Rules of the House of Delegates, relating to agreeing
to Senate Amendments.
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That the Standing Rules of the Rules of the House of Delegates
be amended as follows:
Agreeing to Senate Amendments
122. When
the House receives a message that a House bill or
House Joint Resolution
shall be is amended by the Senate
or the
Senate has further amended a House amendment to a Senate bill or
Senate Joint Resolution, the Clerk shall communicate the action of
the Senate to the House and copies of the Senate amendment shall be
made available to the members. The Speaker shall designate a
location or office where copies of these Senate amendments are
available. During the convening of the House, the Clerk shall
announce the availability of copies of these Senate amendments to
the members at any time when recognized for that purpose by the
Speaker, and the Clerk shall duly note the time of the
announcement. The Senate amendment to a House bill or House
amendment shall lie over one day after the announcement and may not be considered until the next day. The question on agreeing to the
bill or resolution as amended shall be again voted on by yeas and
nays, and the result entered on the Journal, and
in such a case the
affirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to the House
shall be is necessary
for passage.
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