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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Rule 18. Proceedings when senate shall have arrived at the "General Order of the Day."
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19. In forming committee of the whole president to name chair- man.
20. Rules to be observed in committee of the whole. etc.
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
Rule 21. Titles of bills amending laws, what to specify. 22. How introduced ..
23. Reading of bills and resolutions.
66 24. Order of printing.
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Rule 25.
Further consideration of bills in committee of the whole, etc ..
26. When bills considered as ordered to third reading, etc.
27. To be put on final passage in order for third reading, excep -- tions.
28. Final vote on all bills must be by yeas and nays.
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29. Vote, etc., on passage of bills, etc., requiring two-thirds vote.
30. When amendment may be discussed on third reading; com -- mitment or re-commitment always in order.
31. When two-thirds vote required to pass but not to amend.
32. When a lost bill or one similar may be introduced.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
Rule 33. When debatable, when may be withdrawn.
34. What motions in order when a questions is under debate, etc ..
35. Motion to adjourn always in order, what not debatable.
36. When question may be divided.
37. Motions to strike out and insert, etc., not divisible.
38. Filling of blank sums or time.
39. Decision to lay on table, to carry with it all questions, etc.
40. Reconsideration of questions, etc.
YEAS AND NAYS.
Rule 41. Names of members voting for or against, to be recorded, etc .;. members must vote unless previously excused.
42. When yeas and nays have been ordered right to debate. ceases.
CALL OF THE SENATE.
Rule 43. May be ordered by a majority of members present, etc., per -. alty on members absent without leave.
PREVIOUS QUESTION.
Rule 44. How put, when admissible, not debatable, etc.
APPEALS.
Rule 45. From the decisions of the chair; when appeals not debatable .. 66
46. May be laid on the table, etc.
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.
Rule 47. When doors to be closed, who to remain, etc.
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48. Proceedings in, to be kept in separate journal, etc.
49. Nominations for office, day for consideration of, to be fixed .. etc.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
Rule 50. Notice required in cases of, etc.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rule 51. Statement of contents to be indorsed on petitions, etc. 52. Questions relating to priority of business to be decided with- out debate.
53. Member called to order to take his seat; president to decide- questions of order subject to appeal, etc.
54. Who may be admitted within the bar, etc.
55. Alteration rescinding, changing or suspending of rules.
SENATE RULES.
PRESIDENT.
RULE 1. The president of the senate having taken the chair and a «quorum being present, the journal of the preceding day shall be cor- rected and approved.
RULE 2. The president, or in his absence the president pro tempore, shall have the right to name any member to perform the duties of the chair, who is hereby invested during the time specified with all the powers of the president.
RULE 3. The president shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal, which appeal shall be determined by a majority of the sen- ators present and voting.
RULE 4. The president, unless otherwise directed, shall appoint all committees.
SECRETARY.
RULE 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the senate to keep a correct journal of each day's proceedings, and to have the same printed and copies thereof placed upon the files of the president, sen- ators and reporters.
RULE 6. The secretary shall appoint as assistants in the perform- ance of the duties required of him, an assistant secretary, a bill clerk, a proof reader, and a messenger, each one of whom shall be subject to the orders of the secretary and to summary removal by him on failure to properly perform the duties assigned them, such re- moval and the reasons therefor to be reported forthwith to the senate. In case of inability of the secretary, from sickness or other cause, to perform the duties of his office temporarily, the assistant secre- tary shall be charged with the responsibility of the secretary and shall perform his duties.
RULE 7. The secretary of the senate shall make a list of all bills, resolutions, reports of committees, and other proceedings of the sen- ate. Those referred to the committee of the whole, and not made a special order, shall constitute the general orders, and be considered in the order of their reference, unless the senate or committee of the whole shall otherwise determine. He shall prepare and place on the desk of each senator a list of the business under each order of busi- ness, whenever in his judgment there is a sufficient amount of busi- ness on hand to warrant the printing of such list; and as soon as may be after the first fifty days of the session, he shall prepare a calendar of all bills and joint resolutions introduced, with their his- tory up to that date. As soon as may be after the announcement of the standing committees of the senate, he shall have prepared a directory which shall show a list of the senators, with number of the district of each, his county, home postoffice, Lansing address, nativity and profession or occupation; a list of counties, showing
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senators representing the same; a list of standing committees of the senate, showing membership thereof; a list of special committees; the assignment of committee rooms; a list of officers and employes of the senate, and such other matter as he deems advisable.
RULE 8. He shall each day make a file of all bills and joint resolu- tions ordered to a third reading, and they shall be placed on such file in the order in which they were so ordered. He shall be responsible to the senate for the care and preservation of every bill and joint resolution introduced in the senate, and for each bill and joint reso- lution received from the house up to the time of its return to that body, which responsibility shall only be relieved by a receipt from a proper person when the bill is necessarily in the hands of a com- mittee for consideration. When a bill has been finally passed by the two houses he shall attend to the enrollment and printing of same, in accordance with the statute relating thereto, and present the en- rolled copy to the committee on enrollment for final comparison and determination of correctness by said committee on enrollment, and present the same to the governor, taking a receipt therefor, showing the day and hour at which each bill was deposited in the executive office.
RULE 9. He shall number every bill and joint resolution in the order of its introduction. The number so given shall be known as the senate bill numbers. When bills or joint resolutions are ordered printed, he shall give to each another number, in the order in which printed. Such numbers shall be known as the file numbers. He shall also cause to be printed at the head of every bill or joint resolution ordered printed the number of the same, the file number, the name of the introducer, the date of introduction, the committee reporting, and the character of the report.
RULE 10. He shall keep a record of all senate bills and joint resolu- tions and of all house bills and joint resolutions transmitted to the senate, in which record he shall enter the title, number and intro- ducer of each such bill or resolution, and the committee to whom the same is referred. He shall also make an entry therein of every dis- position made of each bill or joint resolution and the date thereof. He shall also make an index of all bills and joint resolutions introduced in the senate, referring to the same by their numbers.
DUTIES OF MEMBERS.
RULE 11. No member shall absent himself from the senate without leave first obtained.
RULE 12. No person shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the senate, or read any newspaper while the journals or public papers are being read; and when the president is putting a question, no senator shall walk out of or across the chamber, nor when a senator is speaking pass between him and the chair.
RULE 13. Every member when he speaks shall address the chair, standing in his place. No member shall speak more than twice in any one debate on the same day, without leave of the senate, except chair- men of committees upon mattters reported by them.
RULE 14. When two or more members rise at once. the president shall name the member who is first to speak.
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ORDER OF BUSINESS.
RULE 15. After the correction and approval of the journal the order . of business shall be as follows:
1. Presentation of petitions.
2. Reports of standing committees.
3. Reports of select committees.
4. Messages from the governor.
5. Communications from state officers.
Messages from the senate.
7. Notices.
8. Motions and resolutions.
9. Introduction of bills.
10. Third reading of bills.
11. Unfinished business.
12. Special orders of the day.
13. General orders.
COMMITTEES.
RULE 16. The following standing committees shall be appointed at the commencement of each regular session, the first named member to be the chairman:
Agricultural college.
Agricultural interests.
Asylum for the criminal insane.
Asylums for the insane at Kalamazoo and Traverse City.
Asylums for the insane at Pontiac and Newberry.
Banks and incorporations.
Cities and villages.
Claims and public accounts.
Constitutional amendments.
Counties and townships.
Education and public schools.
Elections.
Engrossment and enrollment.
Executive business.
Federal relations.
Finance and appropriations.
Fisheries.
Geological survey.
Home for feeble minded.
Horticulture.
House of correction at Marquette.
Immigration.
Industrial home for girls.
Industrial school for boys.
Insurance.
Judiciary. Labor interests.
Liquor traffic.
Lumber interests.
Mechanical interests.
Military affairs.
Mining school and mining interests.
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Normal schools.
Printing.
Public buildings.
Public health.
Public improvements.
Public lands.
Railroads.
Reformatory at Ionia.
Religious and benevolent societies.
Roads and bridges.
Rules and joint rules.
Saline interests.
School for the blind.
School for the deaf.
Soldiers' home.
State affairs.
State library.
State prison.
State public school.
Supplies and expenses.
Taxation.
University.
The following committees shall consist of five members, viz .: Fi- mance and appropriations, judiciary, railroads, cities and villages, la- bor interests, executive business, asylums for the insane, and normal schools. All other committees shall consist of three members unless the senate shall otherwise direct. No committee shall sit during the session of the senate, unless with leave granted; nor employ clerks, nor incur any public expense, unless authorized by resolution of the senate. The committee shall report upon all matters referred to them, without unnecessary delay, and shall return all petitions and other papers referred to them to the secretary of the senate. All nominations to office submitted by the governor, and all other executive business shall be referred to the committee on executive business, and shall be reported upon by such committee with all convenient speed. The com- mittee on engrossment and enrollment of bills shall examine all bills originating in the senate, and which have passed both houses, see that they are correctly enrolled, and signed by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, and presented to the gov- ernor. The committee on supplies and expenses of the senate shall examine and audit all bills for supplies and expense of members and committees for stationery, clerk hire and other purposes not provided for by existing laws, and certify to the correctness of the same, and no such bill shall be audited or paid by any officer of the senate or by any board or officer of the state, unless so certified by the chairman or other member of the committee. They shall make such recom- mendations and reports as they may from time to time deem neces- sary or the senate may require. The committees on finance and appropriations, on engrossment and enrollment of bills, and on sup- plies and expenses, shall have leave to report at any time during the sessions of the senate.
RULE 17. All bills or resolutions appropriating money shall first be referred to the particular committee on the state institution or depart- ment; and when reported back to the senate, they shall then be re-
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ferred to the committee on finance and appropriations. No member of said committees on state institutions or departments shall be a member of said committee on finance and appropriations.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
RULE 18. When the senate shall have arrived at the "General Orders of the Day," it shall go into the committee of the whole upon such orders, or a particular order designated by the senate, and no business shall be in order unless the whole are considered or passed, or the committee rise; and unless a particular bill is ordered up, the com- mittee of the whole shall consider, act upon or pass the general orders, according to the order of their reference.
RULE 19. In forming a committee of the whole senate, a chairman to be named by the president, unless otherwise ordered, shall preside.
RULE 20. The rules of the senate shall be observed in committee of the whole, so far as they may be applicable, except limiting debate, ordering the previous question, and taking the yeas and nays. The motion to lay on the table shall only have effect to recommend the action of the senate. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order and shall be decided wihout debate. Motions recommend- ing actions by the senate shall take precedence in the same order as analogous motions in the senate.
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
RULE 21. In all bills amending any part of the last compilation of the laws, the section or sections amended shall be referred to in the title of the bill, by the compiler's numbers, and the object of the bill shall be expressed in its title. The title of any bill amending any act, if not compiled, shall refer to the section or sections amended, state the number of the act, recite the title thereof, and specify the date of its approval. In addition to the above, if the law proposed to be amended is contained in Howell's annotated statutes of Michigan, the same shall be referred to by the compiler's numbering of the sections thereof.
RULE 22. Every bill shall be introduced by motion for leave, or by a standing or select committee, and one day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion for leave to bring in a bill; and this rule shall not be suspended in relation to bills amending acts of incor- poration.
RULE 23. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed, and the president shall give notice of each, whether it be the first, second or third; and the second and third readings shall be on different days unless two-thirds of the senate present shall direct otherwise. No bill shall be amended or committed until it shall have been twice read; and all joint resolutions which direct the payment of money, or the incurring any expense, or which propose any amend- ment to the constitution, shall be treated as bills.
RULE 24. All bills shall be printed in the order in which they were reported from the committees unless otherwise ordered by the senate.
RULE 25. The commttee of the whole shall not be discharged from the further consideration of any bill referred thereto, except in the regular order of business.
RULE 26. All bills recommended for passage by the committee of the whole shall be considered as ordered to a third reading without further action; but no bill appropriating money out of the treasury
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shall be ordered to a third reading until it shall have been considered in committee of the whole and been recommended for passage, and it shall not be in order to entertain a motion to suspend the rules for that purpose.
RULE 27. All bills shall be put upon their final passage in the same order in which they were ordered to a third reading, unless the senate shall otherwise direct.
RULE 28. The final vote on the passage of all bills shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journal.
RULE 29. The question on the final passage of all bills and joint resolutions, which, by the constitution, require the assent of two- thirds of the senators elect, shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on the journal, and unless two-thirds of all the senators elect vote in the affirmative, the bill or joint resolution shall be declared lost. And whenever such bill or joint resolution shall receive such assent of two-thirds as aforesaid, the fact thereof shall be certified upon said bill or joint resolution. The president shall certify the passage of all bills and joint resolutions to the governor.
RULE 30. No amendment shall be received for discussion at the third reading of any bill, resolution or proposed amendment of the consti- tution, recommended for passage by committee of the whole, unless seconded by a majority of the senate; but it shall at all times be in order, before the final passage of the bill, resolution or proposed con- stitutional amendment, to move its commitment or recommitment.
RULE 31. When a proposed amendment to the constitution, or any bill requiring the concurrence of two-thirds of the senators elect, is under consideration, the concurrence of such two-thirds shall not be requisite to decide any question for amendment, or relating to the merits, being short of the final question, except on amendments to bills that are returned from the house of representatives to the senate for final action.
RULE 32. When a bill or joint resolution originating in either house shall have been lost in the senate, neither the same nor any other bill or joint resolution on the same subject and containing similar pro- visions, shall be subsequently introduced into the senate during the same session, unless by consent of two-thirds of the members elected to the senate.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
RULE 33. No motion or resolution shall be debated until the same is stated by the chair, and it shall be reduced to writing if required by the president or any member, and shall be delivered in at the table and read by the president or secretary before the same shall be debated; but the same may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment.
RULE 34. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but ---
1. To adjourn.
2. To take a recess,
3. To lay on the table.
4. For the previous question.
5. To postpone to a day certain.
6. To commit.
7. To amend.
8. To postpone indefinitely.
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Which several motions shall take precedence in the order in which they stand arranged. When a recess is taken during the pendency of any question, the consideration of such question shall be resumed upon the reassembling of the senate, unless otherwise determined.
RULE 35. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; that and the motion to lay on the table shall be decided without debate. A motion for recess, pending the consideration of other business, shall not be debatable.
RULE 36. If the question in debate contains several points, any mem- ber may have the same divided.
RULE 37. When the motion is made to amend by striking out and inserting other words, the same shall be deemed indivisible, but either the words proposed to be struck out or to be inserted may be amended before the question to strike out and insert is put.
RULE 38. When a blank is to be filled, and different sums or times shall be proposed, the question shall be first taken on the highest sum or the longest time.
RULE 39. A decision to lay upon the table shall carry with it all questions to which it is attached, except in the case of laying an appeal on the table.
RULE 40. When a question has been once put and decided, it shall be in order for any member to move the reconsideration thereof; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order unless the bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall be in the possession of the senate; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order, unless made on the same day the vote was taken, or within the next two days of the actual session of the senate thereafter, nor shall any question be reconsid- ered more than once.
YEAS AND . NAYS.
RULE 41. Upon any question. the names of those who voted for or against the same shall be entered alphabetically on the journal, if one member require it, and each member called upon, unless for special reason he be excused by the senate before the roll call begins, shall declare openly and without debate, his assent or dissent to the ques- tion.
RULE 42. After the yeas and nays are called upon any question and after the question is stated from the chair, and the secretary directed to call the roll, and the first vote given, no member shall be entitled to speak on the question, nor shall any motion be in order until such roll call is finished and the result declared. ,
CALL OF THE SENATE.
RULE 43. A call of the senate may be ordered by a majority of the members present, whether a quorum or not, and in pursuance thereof the sergeant-at-arms or any other person or persons duly empowered by a majority of the members present and voting, may be dispatched for and arrest any or all members absent without leave, as said major- ity shall agree (at the expense of such absent members respectively, unless such excuse shall be made for non-attendance as the senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient; in which case the
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same shall be paid as incidental expenses of the senate). And any such member or members absent without sufficient excuse shall not be en- titled to per diem allowance during the time of absence, in case the senate shall so determine by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting.
PREVIOUS QUESTION.
RULE 44. The mode of ordering the previous question shall be as fol- lows: Any member may move the previous question. This being sec- onded by at least one other member, the chair shall submit the ques- tion in this form, "Shall the main question now be put?" This shall be ordered only by a majority of the members present and voting. The effect of ordering the previous question shall be to instantly close de- bate and bring the senate to an immediate vote on the pending ques- tion or questions in their regular order. The motion for the previous question may be limited by the mover to one or more of the questions preceding the main question itself, in which case the form shall be, "Shall the question, as limited, be now put?" The yeas and nays may be demanded on any vote under this rule, and a motion for a call of the senate shall be in order at any time prior to the ordering of the previous question. Any question of order or appeal from the decision of the chair, pending the previous question, shall be decided without debate. When the question is on a motion to reconsider, under the operation of the previous question, and is decided in the affirmative, the previous question shall have no operation upon the question to be reconsidered. If the senate refuses to order the previous question, the consideration of the subject shall be resumed, as if no motion therefor had been made.
APPEALS
RULE 45. Any member may appeal from any decision of the chair. On all appeals the question shall be, "Shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the senate?" Appeals shall be debatable, ex- cept when the senate is under the operation of the previous question, or the decision appealed from relates to priority of business.
RULE 46. An appeal may be laid on the table, but shall not carry with it the subject matter before the senate at the time such appeal is taken.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
RULE 47. On a motion made and carried to shut the doors of the sen- ate on the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of any member require secrecy, or on motion, made and carried, that the senate go into executive session, the president shall direct all persons, excepting the members and the secretaries and sergeant-at-arms to withdraw; and during the executive session and the discussion of said motion, the doors shall remain shut, and every member and officer shall keep secret all such matters, proceedings, and things whereof the secrecy shall be enjoined by order of the senate.
RULE 48. Whenever the senate shall go into consideration of execu- tive business, the proceedings of the senate in such business shall be
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kept in a separate journal, which shall not be inspected by any others than members of the senate, unless otherwise ordered. Such journal shall be published after the close of the session, at the end of the reg- ular journal of the proceedings of the senate, unless otherwise ordered.
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