SR0759 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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SENATE RESOLUTION

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the Rules of the Senate of the 102nd General Assembly are amended by changing Rules 2-5 and 3-8 as follows:

(Senate Rule 2-5)

2-5. Powers and Duties of the President.

(a) The President shall have those powers conferred upon him or her by the Constitution, the laws of Illinois, and any motions or resolutions adopted by the Senate or jointly by the Senate and House.

(b) Except as provided by law with respect to the Senate Operations Commission, the President is the chief administrative officer of the Senate and shall have those powers necessary to carry out that function. The President may delegate his or her administrative duties as he or she deems appropriate.

(c) The powers and duties of the President shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1) To preside at all sessions of the Senate, although the President may call on any member to preside temporarily.

(2) To open the session at the time at which the Senate is to meet by taking the podium and calling the members to order. The President may call on any member, or the Secretary in case of perfunctory session, to open the session.

(3) To announce the business before the Senate in the order in which it is to be acted upon. At the beginning of each legislative day, the President shall announce the bills the Senate shall consider for final action on that day and the order of their consideration. Once announced, this order is not subject to change except by vote of two-thirds of the members present. No bill not included on the President's Daily Final Action Calendar shall be heard on that day.

(4) To recognize those members entitled to the floor.

(5) To state and put to vote all questions that are regularly moved or that necessarily arise in the course of the proceedings, and to announce the result of the vote.

(6) To preserve order and decorum.

(7) To decide all points of order, subject to appeal, and to speak thereon in preference to other members.

(8) To inform the Senate when necessary, or when any question is raised, on any point of order or practice pertinent to the pending business.

(9) To sign or authenticate all acts, proceedings, or orders of the Senate. All writs, warrants, and subpoenas issued by order of the Senate or one of its committees shall be signed by the President and attested by the Secretary.

(10) To sign all bills passed by both chambers of the General Assembly in order to certify that the procedural requirements for passage have been met.

(11) To have general supervision, including the duty to protect the security and safety, of the Senate chamber, galleries, and adjoining and connecting hallways and passages, including the power to clear them when necessary.

(12) To have general supervision of the Secretary and his or her assistants, the Sergeant-at-Arms and his or her assistants, the majority caucus staff, and all employees of the Senate except the minority caucus staff.

(13) To determine the number of majority caucus members and minority caucus members to be appointed to all committees, except the Committee on Assignments created by Rule 3-5.

(14) To appoint or replace all majority caucus members of committees and to designate all Chairpersons, Co-Chairpersons, and Vice-Chairpersons of committees, except as the Senate otherwise orders in accordance with these Senate Rules.

(15) To enforce all constitutional provisions, statutes, rules, and regulations applicable to the Senate.

(16) To guide and direct the proceedings of the Senate subject to the control and will of the members as provided in these Senate Rules.

(17) To direct the Secretary during regular session, veto session, special session, or perfunctory session to read into the Senate record legislative measures and other papers.

(18) To direct the Secretary to correct non-substantive errors in the Journal.

(19) To assign meeting places and meeting times to committees.

(20) To decide, subject to the control and will of the members in accordance with these Senate Rules, all questions relating to the priority of business.

(21) To appoint a parliamentarian to serve at the pleasure of the President.

(22) To promulgate forms for nominees subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, for temporary appointment messages, and for messages designating acting appointees.

(23) To promulgate forms for members of the Senate to disclose conflicts under the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.

(d) This Rule may be suspended by a vote of three-fifths of the members elected.

(Source: S.R. 2, 102nd G.A.)

(Senate Rule 3-8)

3-8. Referrals to Committees.

(a) All Senate Bills and House Bills shall, after having been initially read by the Secretary, be automatically referred to the Committee on Assignments, which may thereafter refer any bill before it to a committee. The Committee on Assignments may refer any resolution before it to a committee. No bill or resolution may be referred to a committee except pursuant to this Rule or Rule 7-17. A standing or special committee may refer a matter pending in that committee to a subcommittee of that committee. When the Committee on Assignments is of the opinion that a legislative measure should be considered by more than one committee, at the time of referring it, the Committee may direct that when the committee to which it is referred completes its consideration thereof and makes a recommendation with respect thereto, the committee's report shall also recommend that it be referred to the additional committee or committees as directed by the Committee on Assignments. When a legislative measure is so reported, it shall automatically be referred as directed. Except for subcommittees created under Rule 3-3(a-5), the Committee on Assignments may not refer a legislative measure to any subcommittee of a standing or special committee.

(b) All floor amendments, joint action motions for final action, and conference committee reports shall, upon filing with the Secretary, be automatically referred to the Committee on Assignments. No such amendment, joint action motion, or conference committee report may be considered by the Senate unless approved for consideration by the Committee on Assignments. The Committee on Assignments may approve for consideration to the Senate any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action, or conference committee report that: (i) consists of language that has previously been favorably reported to the Senate by a committee; (ii) consists of technical or clarifying language; or (iii) consists of language deemed by the Committee on Assignments to be of an emergency nature, of substantial importance to the operation of government, or in the best interests of Illinois. The Committee on Assignments may refer any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action, or conference committee report to a committee for its review and consideration (in those instances, and notwithstanding any other provision of these Senate Rules, the committee may hold a hearing on and consider those legislative measures pursuant to twenty-four hours one-hour advance notice, with the exception of amendments to appropriations bills which require seventy-two hour advance notice). Any floor amendment, joint action motion for final action, or conference committee report that is not approved for consideration or referred by the Committee on Assignments, and is attempted to be acted upon by a committee shall be out of order, except as provided for under Rule 8-4.

(b-1) A floor amendment filed by the chief sponsor of a bill shall be automatically referred to the standing committee from which the bill was reported (or to another standing committee as the Committee on Assignments may determine) upon adjournment of the Senate on the third regular session day following the day on which the floor amendment was filed, unless (i) the Committee on Assignments referred the floor amendment to a standing committee or acted on the floor amendment in the first instance and referred it to the Senate for consideration; (ii) the bill is no longer pending before the Senate; (iii) the floor amendment deals with the subject of appropriations or State revenue; or (iv) the Committee on Assignments has determined by a majority vote that the floor amendment substantively alters the nature and scope of the underlying bill. If the Committee on Assignments makes a determination under item (iv) of this subsection, then the Committee on Assignments may, in its discretion, (A) refer the floor amendment to any standing committee or (B) not refer the floor amendment to any other committee.

(c) All committee amendments shall, upon filing with the Secretary, be automatically referred to the Committee on Assignments. No committee amendment may be considered by a committee unless the committee amendment is referred to the committee by the Committee on Assignments and the committee amendment has first been made available electronically or otherwise for not less than twenty-four hours, with the exception of amendments to appropriations bills which require seventy-two hour advance notice one hour. Any committee amendment referred by the Committee on Assignments shall be referred to the committee before which the underlying bill or resolution is pending. Any committee amendment that is not referred by the Committee on Assignments to a committee, and is attempted to be acted upon by a committee shall be out of order.

(c-1) A committee amendment filed by the chief sponsor of a bill shall be automatically referred to the standing committee to which the bill was assigned upon adjournment of the Senate on the third regular session day following the day on which the committee amendment was filed, unless (i) the Committee on Assignments referred the committee amendment to the standing committee to which the bill was assigned; (ii) the bill is no longer pending before the committee; (iii) the committee amendment deals with the subject of appropriations or State revenue; or (iv) the Committee on Assignments has determined by a majority vote that the committee amendment substantively alters the nature and scope of the underlying bill. If the Committee on Assignments makes a determination under item (iv) of this subsection, then the Committee on Assignments may, in its discretion, (A) refer both the bill and the committee amendment to any standing committee or (B) not refer the committee amendment to any other committee.

(d) The Committee on Assignments may at any time re-refer a legislative measure from a committee to a Committee of the Whole or to any other appropriate committee. However, the Committee on Assignments may not re-refer a bill from a committee to a Committee of the Whole or any other committee unless the Chair of the committee to which the bill was originally referred consents in writing to the re-referral.

(d-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of these Senate Rules, any bill pending before the Committee on Assignments shall be immediately referred to the indicated standing committee if the chief sponsor of the bill files a discharge motion for that bill that is signed by no less than three-fifths of the members of both the majority and minority caucus, and each of the members signing the discharge motion is a sponsor of the bill. This subsection does not apply to bills dealing with the subject of appropriations or State revenue.

(e) This Rule may be suspended by a vote of three-fifths of the members elected.

(Source: S.R. 2, 102nd G.A.)