COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 6

(By Senator Unger)

Amending Senate Rule Nos. 3, 14, 15, 27 and 62, all relating generally to the officers, organization and operation of the Senate.

    Resolved by the Senate:

    That Senate Rule No. 3 be amended to read as follows:

Officers

    3.  The Senate, at the commencement of each new Legislature, shall elect as its officers a President, Clerk, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper. If at any time the President becomes acting is obligated to act as Governor pursuant to Article VII, Section 16 of the West Virginia Constitution, the Senate shall immediately elect one of its remaining members to serve as acting Acting President. The acting Acting President shall act and serve at all times when the duly elected President is serving as acting as Governor and shall perform all of the duties of the office of Senate President without limitation: Provided, That the acting , including any duties imposed by the West Virginia Constitution, any statute, the Senate Rules and any adopted Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates, and he or she shall receive the compensation and expenses of the President of the Senate as provided in article two-a, chapter four of the Code of West Virginia. The Acting President shall not be in the line of succession for acting to act as Governor under the provisions of Article VII, Section 16 of the West Virginia Constitution. The vote of a majority of all the members elected to the Senate shall be necessary for the election of these officers and the vote shall be by voice vote and be entered upon the Journal.;

    That Senate Rule No. 14 be amended to read as follows:

Bills and Resolutions

    14. No Senate bill, other than a Senate supplementary appropriation bill, and no Senate joint resolution shall be introduced in the Senate after the forty-first day of a regular session unless permission to introduce the bill or the joint resolution be given by a Senate resolution, setting out the title to the bill or the joint resolution and adopted by a two-thirds vote of the Senate members present. When permission is requested to introduce a bill or joint resolution under the provisions of this rule, quadruplicate duplicate copies of the bill or the joint resolution shall accompany the resolution when introduced and all such bills or joint resolutions shall be filed electronically with the Clerk’s office.

    A standing committee of the Senate may originate a bill or resolution and report the same after the forty-first day.

   The forty-first day of the regular session held in the year one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven and every fourth year thereafter shall be computed from and include the second Wednesday of February of such years.;

   That Senate Rule No. 15 be amended to read as follows:

   15.  Each bill or resolution for introduction shall be presented in quadruplicate duplicate and electronically, bearing the name of the member or members by whom it is to be introduced, and shall be filed with the Clerk not later than twelve o'clock meridian on the legislative day next preceding its introduction: Provided, That the pre-filing requirement shall not apply to the first day of any session of the Legislature. A bill may be introduced by request. All bills introduced by request shall bear the words “by request”, following the designation of the name or names of the bill sponsor or sponsors.

    The Clerk shall designate one copy of a bill or resolution the official copy and it shall constitute the official bill or resolution for use of committees and for the permanent files of the Senate. One copy shall be used for printing and copying, one for the use of the news media and one for the Clerk's general office files.;

    That Senate Rule No. 27 be amended to read as follows:

Committees

    27. At the commencement of each Legislature, standing committees shall be appointed, each committee to consist of the number of members indicated in the parentheses following the naming of the committee. The following committees shall be named:

        1. On Agriculture (11).

        2. On Banking and Insurance (13).

        3. On Confirmations (9).

        4. On Economic Development (14).

        5. On Education (14).

        6. On Energy, Industry and Mining (13).

        7. On Enrolled Bills (5).

        7. 8. On Finance (17).

        8. 9. On Government Organization (14).

        9. 10. On Health and Human Resources (13).

10. 11. On Interstate Cooperation (7); (the President presiding officer of the Senate is to be ex officio cochairperson).

       11. 12. On the Judiciary (17).

       12. 13. On Labor (11).

       13. 14. On Military (9).

       14. 15. On Natural Resources (13).

       15. 16. On Pensions (7).

16. 17. On Rules (10) (11); (the President presiding officer of the Senate is to be ex officio chairperson).

       17. 18. On Transportation and Infrastructure (9).;

       And,

       That Senate Rule No. 62 be amended to read as follows:

                     Parliamentary Procedure

       62. In all cases not provided for by these the Rules of the Senate or any adopted Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates, the Senate shall be governed by Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress and practices thereunder.