1-1  By:  Rosson, et al.                                    S.R. No. 649
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 6, 1995; April 6, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
    1-4  April 19, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
    1-5  Nays 1; April 19, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                           SENATE RESOLUTION
    1-7        BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, That Rule
    1-8  4.03, Rules of the Senate, 74th Legislature, be amended to read as
    1-9  follows:
   1-10                    INTERRUPTION OF MEMBER SPEAKING
   1-11        Rule 4.03.  (a)  No member shall interrupt another Senator
   1-12  who has the floor or otherwise interrupt the business of the
   1-13  Senate, except for the purpose of making a point of order, calling
   1-14  the member having the floor to order, moving the previous question,
   1-15  demanding that a point of order under discussion or consideration
   1-16  be immediately decided, or making a motion to adjourn or recess.
   1-17  Though another member has the floor, any member shall be recognized
   1-18  by the presiding officer in order to call to order the member, to
   1-19  make a point of order, to move the previous question, or to demand
   1-20  that a point of order be immediately decided.
   1-21        (b)  A member who has the floor must yield to permit the
   1-22  Senate to receive messages from the Governor and from the House of
   1-23  Representatives and shall not lose the floor.  A member who has the
   1-24  floor may yield for questions from other members and shall not lose
   1-25  the floor.  In the event a member is interrupted because of a
   1-26  motion to adjourn or recess and the motion fails, the floor shall
   1-27  be immediately returned to the interrupted member.  In the event
   1-28  the interrupted member was speaking under the previous question and
   1-29  a motion to adjourn or recess prevails, the member shall resume the
   1-30  floor and finish speaking when the bill is next considered by the
   1-31  Senate.
   1-32        (c)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this rule and Rule
   1-33  4.05, a member who has been speaking on a pending question
   1-34  continuously for four consecutive hours may request permission to
   1-35  be excused from the floor for five minutes, which permission shall
   1-36  be granted by the presiding officer.  The presiding officer shall
   1-37  fix the time for the member to resume the floor, at which time the
   1-38  member shall resume the floor and continue speaking on the pending
   1-39  question unless the Senate, during the member's absence from the
   1-40  floor, has proceeded to business other than the pending question.
   1-41  If the Senate has proceeded to business other than the pending
   1-42  question during the member's absence, the member shall immediately
   1-43  resume the floor when consideration of the pending question recurs.
   1-44  If the member is absent from the floor at the time fixed for the
   1-45  member to return, or when the pending question recurs, the member
   1-46  shall lose the floor.
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