78R8430 DKI-D

By:  West                                                         H.R. No. 417



R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the State of 
Texas, That Rule 6, Section 1, of the permanent rules of the House 
of Representatives of the 78th Legislature is amended as follows:  
	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)  Recital of the pledge of allegiance to the United 
States flag and the pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag.
		(5)  Excuses for absence of members and officers.                      
		(6) [(5)]  First reading and reference to committee of 
bills filed with the chief clerk; and motions to introduce bills, 
when such motions are required. 
		(7) [(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.
		(8) [(7)]  Unfinished business.                       
		(9) [(8)]  Postponed matters to be laid before the 
house in accordance with Rule 7, Section 15.
		(10) [(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)  Recital of the pledge of allegiance to the United 
States flag and the pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag.
		(5)  Excuses for absence of members and officers.                      
		(6) [(5)]  Pending business.                          
		(7) [(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.