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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL
3ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Rules of the Senate
4of the 102nd General Assembly are amended by changing Rules
52-5 and 3-8 as follows:
 
 
6    (Senate Rule 2-5)
7    2-5. Powers and Duties of the President.
8    (a) The President shall have those powers conferred upon
9him or her by the Constitution, the laws of Illinois, and any
10motions or resolutions adopted by the Senate or jointly by the
11Senate and House.
 
12    (b) Except as provided by law with respect to the Senate
13Operations Commission, the President is the chief
14administrative officer of the Senate and shall have those
15powers necessary to carry out that function. The President may
16delegate his or her administrative duties as he or she deems
17appropriate.
 
18     (c) The powers and duties of the President shall include,
19but are not limited to, the following:
 
20        (1) To preside at all sessions of the Senate, although

 

 

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1    the President may call on any member to preside
2    temporarily.
 
3        (2) To open the session at the time at which the Senate
4    is to meet by taking the podium and calling the members to
5    order. The President may call on any member, or the
6    Secretary in case of perfunctory session, to open the
7    session.
 
8        (3) To announce the business before the Senate in the
9    order in which it is to be acted upon. At the beginning of
10    each legislative day, the President shall announce the
11    bills the Senate shall consider for final action on that
12    day and the order of their consideration. Once announced,
13    this order is not subject to change except by vote of
14    two-thirds of the members present. No bill not included on
15    the President's Daily Final Action Calendar shall be heard
16    on that day.
 
17        (4) To recognize those members entitled to the floor.
 
18        (5) To state and put to vote all questions that are
19    regularly moved or that necessarily arise in the course of
20    the proceedings, and to announce the result of the vote.
 
21        (6) To preserve order and decorum.
 

 

 

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1        (7) To decide all points of order, subject to appeal,
2    and to speak thereon in preference to other members.
 
3        (8) To inform the Senate when necessary, or when any
4    question is raised, on any point of order or practice
5    pertinent to the pending business.
 
6        (9) To sign or authenticate all acts, proceedings, or
7    orders of the Senate. All writs, warrants, and subpoenas
8    issued by order of the Senate or one of its committees
9    shall be signed by the President and attested by the
10    Secretary.
 
11        (10) To sign all bills passed by both chambers of the
12    General Assembly in order to certify that the procedural
13    requirements for passage have been met.
 
14        (11) To have general supervision, including the duty
15    to protect the security and safety, of the Senate chamber,
16    galleries, and adjoining and connecting hallways and
17    passages, including the power to clear them when
18    necessary.
 
19        (12) To have general supervision of the Secretary and
20    his or her assistants, the Sergeant-at-Arms and his or her

 

 

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1    assistants, the majority caucus staff, and all employees
2    of the Senate except the minority caucus staff.
 
3        (13) To determine the number of majority caucus
4    members and minority caucus members to be appointed to all
5    committees, except the Committee on Assignments created by
6    Rule 3-5.
 
7        (14) To appoint or replace all majority caucus members
8    of committees and to designate all Chairpersons,
9    Co-Chairpersons, and Vice-Chairpersons of committees,
10    except as the Senate otherwise orders in accordance with
11    these Senate Rules.
 
12        (15) To enforce all constitutional provisions,
13    statutes, rules, and regulations applicable to the Senate.
 
14        (16) To guide and direct the proceedings of the Senate
15    subject to the control and will of the members as provided
16    in these Senate Rules.
 
17        (17) To direct the Secretary during regular session,
18    veto session, special session, or perfunctory session to
19    read into the Senate record legislative measures and other
20    papers.
 

 

 

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1        (18) To direct the Secretary to correct
2    non-substantive errors in the Journal.
 
3        (19) To assign meeting places and meeting times to
4    committees.
 
5        (20) To decide, subject to the control and will of the
6    members in accordance with these Senate Rules, all
7    questions relating to the priority of business.
 
8        (21) To appoint a parliamentarian to serve at the
9    pleasure of the President.
 
10        (22) To promulgate forms for nominees subject to the
11    advice and consent of the Senate, for temporary
12    appointment messages, and for messages designating acting
13    appointees.
 
14        (23) To promulgate forms for members of the Senate to
15    disclose conflicts under the Illinois Governmental Ethics
16    Act.
 
17    (d) This Rule may be suspended by a vote of three-fifths of
18the members elected.
19(Source: S.R. 2, 102nd G.A.)
 

 

 

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1    (Senate Rule 3-8)
2    3-8. Referrals to Committees.
3    (a) All Senate Bills and House Bills shall, after having
4been initially read by the Secretary, be automatically
5referred to the Committee on Assignments, which may thereafter
6refer any bill before it to a committee. The Committee on
7Assignments may refer any resolution before it to a committee.
8No bill or resolution may be referred to a committee except
9pursuant to this Rule or Rule 7-17. A standing or special
10committee may refer a matter pending in that committee to a
11subcommittee of that committee. When the Committee on
12Assignments is of the opinion that a legislative measure
13should be considered by more than one committee, at the time of
14referring it, the Committee may direct that when the committee
15to which it is referred completes its consideration thereof
16and makes a recommendation with respect thereto, the
17committee's report shall also recommend that it be referred to
18the additional committee or committees as directed by the
19Committee on Assignments. When a legislative measure is so
20reported, it shall automatically be referred as directed.
21Except for subcommittees created under Rule 3-3(a-5), the
22Committee on Assignments may not refer a legislative measure
23to any subcommittee of a standing or special committee.
 
24    (b) All floor amendments, joint action motions for final
25action, and conference committee reports shall, upon filing

 

 

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1with the Secretary, be automatically referred to the Committee
2on Assignments. No such amendment, joint action motion, or
3conference committee report may be considered by the Senate
4unless approved for consideration by the Committee on
5Assignments. The Committee on Assignments may approve for
6consideration to the Senate any floor amendment, joint action
7motion for final action, or conference committee report that:
8(i) consists of language that has previously been favorably
9reported to the Senate by a committee; (ii) consists of
10technical or clarifying language; or (iii) consists of
11language deemed by the Committee on Assignments to be of an
12emergency nature, of substantial importance to the operation
13of government, or in the best interests of Illinois. The
14Committee on Assignments may refer any floor amendment, joint
15action motion for final action, or conference committee report
16to a committee for its review and consideration (in those
17instances, and notwithstanding any other provision of these
18Senate Rules, the committee may hold a hearing on and consider
19those legislative measures pursuant to twenty-four hours
20one-hour advance notice, with the exception of amendments to
21appropriations bills which require seventy-two hour advance
22notice). Any floor amendment, joint action motion for final
23action, or conference committee report that is not approved
24for consideration or referred by the Committee on Assignments,
25and is attempted to be acted upon by a committee shall be out
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1    (b-1) A floor amendment filed by the chief sponsor of a
2bill shall be automatically referred to the standing committee
3from which the bill was reported (or to another standing
4committee as the Committee on Assignments may determine) upon
5adjournment of the Senate on the third regular session day
6following the day on which the floor amendment was filed,
7unless (i) the Committee on Assignments referred the floor
8amendment to a standing committee or acted on the floor
9amendment in the first instance and referred it to the Senate
10for consideration; (ii) the bill is no longer pending before
11the Senate; (iii) the floor amendment deals with the subject
12of appropriations or State revenue; or (iv) the Committee on
13Assignments has determined by a majority vote that the floor
14amendment substantively alters the nature and scope of the
15underlying bill. If the Committee on Assignments makes a
16determination under item (iv) of this subsection, then the
17Committee on Assignments may, in its discretion, (A) refer the
18floor amendment to any standing committee or (B) not refer the
19floor amendment to any other committee.
 
20    (c) All committee amendments shall, upon filing with the
21Secretary, be automatically referred to the Committee on
22Assignments. No committee amendment may be considered by a
23committee unless the committee amendment is referred to the
24committee by the Committee on Assignments and the committee

 

 

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1amendment has first been made available electronically or
2otherwise for not less than twenty-four hours, with the
3exception of amendments to appropriations bills which require
4seventy-two hour advance notice one hour. Any committee
5amendment referred by the Committee on Assignments shall be
6referred to the committee before which the underlying bill or
7resolution is pending. Any committee amendment that is not
8referred by the Committee on Assignments to a committee, and
9is attempted to be acted upon by a committee shall be out of
10order.
 
11    (c-1) A committee amendment filed by the chief sponsor of
12a bill shall be automatically referred to the standing
13committee to which the bill was assigned upon adjournment of
14the Senate on the third regular session day following the day
15on which the committee amendment was filed, unless (i) the
16Committee on Assignments referred the committee amendment to
17the standing committee to which the bill was assigned; (ii)
18the bill is no longer pending before the committee; (iii) the
19committee amendment deals with the subject of appropriations
20or State revenue; or (iv) the Committee on Assignments has
21determined by a majority vote that the committee amendment
22substantively alters the nature and scope of the underlying
23bill. If the Committee on Assignments makes a determination
24under item (iv) of this subsection, then the Committee on
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1and the committee amendment to any standing committee or (B)
2not refer the committee amendment to any other committee.
 
3    (d) The Committee on Assignments may at any time re-refer
4a legislative measure from a committee to a Committee of the
5Whole or to any other appropriate committee. However, the
6Committee on Assignments may not re-refer a bill from a
7committee to a Committee of the Whole or any other committee
8unless the Chair of the committee to which the bill was
9originally referred consents in writing to the re-referral.
 
10    (d-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Senate
11Rules, any bill pending before the Committee on Assignments
12shall be immediately referred to the indicated standing
13committee if the chief sponsor of the bill files a discharge
14motion for that bill that is signed by no less than
15three-fifths of the members of both the majority and minority
16caucus, and each of the members signing the discharge motion
17is a sponsor of the bill. This subsection does not apply to
18bills dealing with the subject of appropriations or State
19revenue.
 
20    (e) This Rule may be suspended by a vote of three-fifths of
21the members elected.
22(Source: S.R. 2, 102nd G.A.)