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90_HR0722
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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
3 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the
4 Rules of the House of Representatives of the Ninetieth
5 General Assembly are amended by changing Rule 18 as follows:
6 (House Rule 18)
7 18. Referrals to Committees.
8 (a) All House Bills and Senate Bills, after being
9 initially read by the Clerk, are automatically referred to
10 the Rules Committee.
11 (b) During odd-numbered years, the Rules Committee shall
12 thereafter refer any such bill before it to a standing
13 committee or a special committee within 3 legislative days.
14 During even-numbered years, the Rules Committee shall refer
15 to a standing committee or a special committee only
16 appropriation bills implementing the budget and bills deemed
17 by the Rules Committee, by the affirmative vote of a majority
18 appointed, to be of an emergency nature or to be of
19 substantial importance to the operation of government. This
20 subsection (b) applies equally to House Bills and Senate
21 Bills introduced into or received by the House.
22 (c) A standing committee or a special committee may
23 refer a subject matter or a legislative measure pending in
24 that committee to a subcommittee of that committee.
25 (d) All legislative measures favorably reported by a
26 standing committee or a special committee, or discharged from
27 a standing committee or a special committee under Rule 58,
28 shall be referred to the House and placed on the appropriate
29 order of business, which shall appear on the daily calendar.
30 All legislative measures, except bills or resolutions on the
31 Consent Calendar, bills or resolutions assigned short debate
32 status by a standing committee or special committee, and
33 floor amendments, so referred are automatically assigned
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1 standard debate status, subject to Rule 52.
2 (e) All floor amendments, joint action motions for final
3 action, and conference committee reports, upon filing with
4 the Clerk, are automatically referred to the Rules Committee.
5 The Rules Committee may refer any floor amendment, joint
6 action motion for final action, or conference committee
7 report to the House or to a standing committee or a special
8 committee for its review and consideration (in those
9 instances, and notwithstanding any other provision of these
10 Rules, the standing committee or special committee may hold a
11 hearing on and consider those legislative measures pursuant
12 to a one-hour advance notice). Any floor amendment, joint
13 action motion for final action, or conference committee
14 report that is not referred to the House by the Rules
15 Committee is out of order, except that any floor amendment,
16 joint action motion for final action, or conference committee
17 report favorably approved by a standing committee or a
18 special committee is deemed referred to the House by the
19 Rules Committee for purposes of this Rule. All joint action
20 motions for final action and conference committee reports so
21 referred are automatically assigned standard debate status,
22 subject to Rule 52. Floor amendments referred to the House
23 under this Rule are automatically assigned amendment debate
24 status.
25 (f) The Rules Committee may at any time refer or
26 re-refer a legislative measure from a committee to a
27 Committee of the Whole or to any other committee.
28 (g) Legislative measures shall may be discharged from
29 the Rules Committee upon the affirmative vote of 71 members
30 elected only by unanimous consent of the House. Any bill
31 discharged from the Rules Committee shall be placed on the
32 order of Second Reading and assigned standard debate status,
33 subject to Rule 52.
34 (h) Except for those provisions that require unanimous
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1 consent, this Rule may be suspended only by the affirmative
2 vote of 71 members elected.
3 (Source: HR 6, 90th G.A.)