87S20445 MAW-D
 
  By: Tinderholt H.R. No. 15
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the 87th
  Texas Legislature, That Sections 6 and 8 of Rule 5 of the permanent
  rules of the House of Representatives of the 87th Legislature are
  amended to read as follows:
         Sec. 6.  MOTIONS IN ORDER WHEN QUORUM NOT PRESENT.  If a
  registration or record vote reveals that a quorum is not present,
  only a motion to adjourn or a motion for a call of the house and the
  motions incidental thereto, including motions to impose penalties
  on absent members, shall be in order.
         Sec. 8.  SECURING A QUORUM. (a) When a call of the house is
  moved for one of the above purposes and seconded by 15 members (of
  whom the speaker may be one) and ordered by a majority vote, the
  main entrance to the hall and all other doors leading out of the
  hall shall be locked and no member permitted to leave the house
  without the written permission of the speaker. The names of members
  present shall be recorded. All absentees for whom no sufficient
  excuse is made may, by order of a majority of those present, be sent
  for and arrested, wherever they may be found, by the
  sergeant-at-arms or an officer appointed by the sergeant-at-arms
  for that purpose, and their attendance shall be secured and
  retained. The house shall determine on what conditions they shall
  be discharged. Members who voluntarily appear shall, unless the
  house otherwise directs, be immediately admitted to the hall of the
  house and shall report their names to the clerk to be entered in the
  journal as present.
         (b)  Until a quorum appears, should the roll call fail to
  show one present, it shall not be in order to recess under a call of
  the house and no business shall be transacted, except to adjourn,
  compel the attendance of absent members, or, by a vote of a majority
  of all members, impose the following penalties on absent members:
               (1)  removal of an absent member from any committee
  chairmanship;
               (2)  removal of an absent member from any procedural
  committee; and
               (3)  permanent removal of any privilege or advantage
  regularly due to an absent member on the basis of seniority [to
  adjourn. It shall not be in order to recess under a call of the
  house].