Amend HR 4 (adopting the permanent rules of the house) in Rule 4 by adding Chapter G to read as follows:
CHAPTER G. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 71. REPORT FROM COMMITTEE AND CONSIDERATION BY FULL HOUSE OF CERTAIN BILLS OR RESOLUTIONS. (a) This section applies only to a measure that:
(1) has the following total of members who are the author, joint author, or coauthor or the sponsor, joint sponsor, or cosponsor:
(A) 76 or more for a bill; or
(B) 100 or more for a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment; and
(2) is in a substantive committee on or after:
(A) the 76th day of a regular session for a house bill or resolution; or
(B) the 111th day of a regular session for a senate bill or resolution.
(b) The chair of the committee to which the bill or resolution has been referred shall, not later than the seventh calendar day after the later of the date described by Subsection (a)(2)(A) or (B) of this section or the date the bill or resolution was referred, hold a public hearing at which public testimony is to be heard on the bill or resolution and report the bill or resolution from the committee. A bill or resolution that is reported under this section shall be delivered to the Committee on Calendars.
(c) The Committee on Calendars shall set a bill or resolution delivered to it under Subsection (b) of this section on the emergency calendar not later than the seventh calendar day after the date the committee receives the bill or resolution.
(d) A point of order may not be sustained against the form of a report made under Subsection (b) of this section.