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| HRULE 1.1 |
Use of the Chamber |
| HRULE 1.2 |
Admission to the floor and chamber and House facilities |
| HRULE 1.3 |
Telephones and pagers |
| HRULE 1.4 |
Authorization to sit at a member's desk in the House Chamber |
| HRULE 2.1 |
Officers |
| HRULE 2.2 |
Organization meeting of the House |
| HRULE 2.3 |
Speaker; election |
| HRULE 2.4 |
Speaker; removal |
| HRULE 2.5 |
Speaker; duties |
| HRULE 2.6 |
Acting Speaker |
| HRULE 2.7 |
Speaker Pro Tempore; election |
| HRULE 2.8 |
Speaker Pro Tempore; duties |
| HRULE 2.9 |
Clerk of the House; election |
| HRULE 2.10 |
Clerk of the House; duties |
| HRULE 2.11 |
Sergeant at Arms; appointment |
| HRULE 2.12 |
Sergeant at Arms; duties |
| HRULE 3.1 |
Employees |
| HRULE 3.2 |
Assistant Clerk |
| HRULE 3.3 |
Pages |
| HRULE 3.4 |
House employees; lobbying |
| HRULE 3.5 |
House Legislative Services; executive director |
| HRULE 4.1 |
Absence |
| HRULE 4.2 |
Presence recorded |
| HRULE 4.3 |
Quorum |
| HRULE 4.4 |
Quorum necessary to transact business |
| HRULE 4.5 |
Quorum call; record vote |
| HRULE 4.6 |
Compelling attendance of absent members |
| HRULE 4.7 |
Members; interim compensation |
| HRULE 4.8 |
Required financial reports; contempt; penalties |
| HRULE 4.9 |
Memorial delegation |
| HRULE 5.1 |
Decorous language |
| HRULE 5.2 |
Violation of rules |
| HRULE 5.3 |
Clearing the Chamber |
| HRULE 5.4 |
Recognition to address the House |
| HRULE 5.5 |
Recognition when voting machine out of order |
| HRULE 5.6 |
Points of order and information |
| HRULE 5.7 |
Limits on debate |
| HRULE 5.8 |
Attire for members |
| HRULE 5.9 |
Tobacco products |
| HRULE 6.1 |
Standing Committees; select committees |
| HRULE 6.2 |
Chairman and Vice Chairman |
| HRULE 6.3 |
Membership of standing committees |
| HRULE 6.4 |
Committee on Appropriations; subcommittees |
| HRULE 6.5 |
Referral to standing committees |
| HRULE 6.6 |
Standing committee jurisdiction |
| HRULE 6.7 |
Regular committee meetings |
| HRULE 6.8 |
Rule 6.8. Recommittal: Constitutional amendments; study resolutions; Capital Outlay Bill; minimum foundation resolution; legislative instruments creating special funds; legislative instruments with a fiscal impact; public records exceptions; interstate compacts; felonies |
| HRULE 6.9 |
Committee hearing; reporting legislative instruments; vote required |
| HRULE 6.10 |
Hearing on Legislation; Mandatory on Author's Request; Rescheduling Deferred Legislation |
| HRULE 6.11 |
Committee report; session; interim |
| HRULE 6.12 |
Report by substitute |
| HRULE 6.13 |
Directing committee to report; discharging committee |
| HRULE 6.14 |
Conference committees; membership; appointment |
| HRULE 6.15 |
Committee on Enrollment |
| HRULE 6.16 |
Committee on Enrollment; reports in order |
| HRULE 6.17 |
Committee on Enrollment; reports; entry in Journal |
| HRULE 6.18 |
Committee of the Whole |
| HRULE 6.19 |
Procedure in the Committee of the Whole |
| HRULE 6.20 |
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole |
| HRULE 6.21 |
Bill read by clauses |
| HRULE 6.22 |
Journal of the Committee of the Whole; record votes |
| HRULE 6.23 |
Committee of the Whole; report upon rising |
| HRULE 6.24 |
Action on measure reported by the Committee of the Whole |
| HRULE 6.25 |
General Appropriation Bill to be considered in Committee of the Whole |
| HRULE 6.26 |
House Executive Committee |
| HRULE 7.1 |
Legislative instrument defined |
| HRULE 7.2 |
Prefiling |
| HRULE 7.3 |
Numbering of instruments; numbering of the General Appropriation Bill, the Capital Outlay Bill, and the Omnibus Bond Bill |
| HRULE 7.4 |
Resolutions; titles |
| HRULE 7.5 |
Title only bills |
| HRULE 7.6 |
Legislative instruments; preparation by staff; introduction copies; printing |
| HRULE 7.7 |
Endorsement of instruments |
| HRULE 7.8 |
Engrossment to include all amendments |
| HRULE 7.9 |
Engrossment, copies; digest; form and content of the General Appropriation Bill |
| HRULE 7.10 |
Reengrossment |
| HRULE 7.11 |
Voting on conference committee reports; digests |
| HRULE 7.12 |
Enrollment |
| HRULE 7.13 |
Signature of Speaker |
| HRULE 7.14 |
Presentation to President of the Senate |
| HRULE 7.15 |
Presentation to the Governor |
| HRULE 7.16 |
Fiscal notes; requirement; capital outlay appropriations, amendments |
| HRULE 7.17 |
Actuarial notes |
| HRULE 7.18 |
Required fiscal data for licensing fee legislation |
| HRULE 7.19 |
Appropriation bills; one-time money for recurring expenses; vote requirement |
| HRULE 8.1 |
Morning Hour |
| HRULE 8.2 |
Regular Order of the Day |
| HRULE 8.3 |
Priority of Business |
| HRULE 8.4 |
Special Order |
| HRULE 8.5 |
Precedence of Special Orders |
| HRULE 8.6 |
Order of Business, vote required to change; Special Order, vote required to establish |
| HRULE 8.7 |
Presentation of documents |
| HRULE 8.8 |
Order of consideration of legislative instruments |
| HRULE 8.9 |
Three readings of bills required |
| HRULE 8.10 |
Bills; First Reading |
| HRULE 8.11 |
Resolutions; introduction and referral; suspension of laws |
| HRULE 8.12 |
Commitment or amendment; two prior readings required |
| HRULE 8.13 |
Commitment or amendment on Second Reading |
| HRULE 8.14 |
Committee report required |
| HRULE 8.15 |
Consideration of the General Appropriation Bill |
| HRULE 8.16 |
Passage to Third Reading |
| HRULE 8.17 |
Bills engrossed; passed to Third Reading |
| HRULE 8.18 |
Legislative instruments which have been recommitted |
| HRULE 8.19 |
Legislative Bureau |
| HRULE 8.20 |
Placement on a calendar |
| HRULE 8.21 |
Local and consent calendar |
| HRULE 8.22 |
Major state calendar |
| HRULE 8.23 |
Regular calendar |
| HRULE 8.24 |
Calendars; action on |
| HRULE 8.25 |
Calendars; removal from |
| HRULE 8.26 |
Returning to and calling from the calendar |
| HRULE 8.27 |
Conference committee reports; consideration |
| HRULE 8.28 |
Vetoed bills; reconsideration |
| HRULE 9.1 |
Statement of motion |
| HRULE 9.2 |
Possession of the House |
| HRULE 9.3 |
Division of the question |
| HRULE 9.4 |
Substitute motions |
| HRULE 9.5 |
Precedence of motions |
| HRULE 9.6 |
Motion to adjourn |
| HRULE 9.7 |
Motion to adjourn or recess; effect of |
| HRULE 9.8 |
Motion to lay on table |
| HRULE 9.9 |
Motion to call from the table; vote necessary to adopt |
| HRULE 9.10 |
Previous question and previous question on the entire subject matter |
| HRULE 9.11 |
Reconsideration |
| HRULE 9.12 |
Appeals of rulings of the Chair |
| HRULE 9.13 |
Motion to end consideration of amendments |
| HRULE 9.14 |
Motions table |
| HRULE 10.1 |
Members required to vote; explanation of vote |
| HRULE 10.2 |
Speaker's vote |
| HRULE 10.3 |
Voting for members; prohibition; locking voting machines |
| HRULE 10.4 |
Putting the question |
| HRULE 10.5 |
Voting machine out of order |
| HRULE 10.6 |
Tie vote |
| HRULE 10.7 |
Must be present in Chamber to vote |
| HRULE 10.8 |
Change of vote |
| HRULE 10.9 |
Record Vote |
| HRULE 11.1 |
Germane to subject |
| HRULE 11.2 |
Amendments in order |
| HRULE 11.3 |
Order of consideration |
| HRULE 11.4 |
Floor amendments; public information; copies |
| HRULE 11.5 |
Proposing same amendment |
| HRULE 11.6 |
Appropriations bills; required information |
| HRULE 12.1 |
Journal; proceedings entered |
| HRULE 12.2 |
Journal; votes entered |
| HRULE 12.3 |
Journal; legislative instrument entered |
| HRULE 12.4 |
Journal; documents entered |
| HRULE 12.5 |
Journal read daily |
| HRULE 12.6 |
House Calendar; publication |
| HRULE 12.7 |
Interim Calendar |
| HRULE 12.8 |
Internet broadcast of proceedings; records; maintenance; applicability |
| HRULE 13.1 |
Action on standing rules |
| HRULE 13.2 |
Suspension of rules; return to rules; vote required |
| HRULE 13.3 |
Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure |
| HRULE 14.1 |
Committee Rules |
| HRULE 14.2 |
Committee Chairmen; duties |
| HRULE 14.3 |
Vice Chairman; Duties |
| HRULE 14.4 |
Acting Chairman |
| HRULE 14.5 |
Chairman; Vacancy |
| HRULE 14.6 |
Committee Members; Rights and Privileges |
| HRULE 14.7 |
Amendments; Members to Offer |
| HRULE 14.8 |
Members; Duty to Attend Meetings; Attendance Record; Removal of Members; Excessive Absences |
| HRULE 14.9 |
Conflict of Interest; Recusal of Members |
| HRULE 14.10 |
Meeting while House is in session |
| HRULE 14.11 |
Executive sessions |
| HRULE 14.12 |
Consideration of instruments |
| HRULE 14.13 |
Introduction of Legislation by Committees |
| HRULE 14.14 |
Misconduct; Report of |
| HRULE 14.15 |
Calling Meetings; Committee Authority |
| HRULE 14.16 |
Standing committees; authority for meeting between sessions; authority for forming joint committees or for meeting jointly with Senate committees; procedure |
| HRULE 14.17 |
Standing committees; interim; special appointments |
| HRULE 14.18 |
Organizational Meeting; Calling; Notice; Purpose |
| HRULE 14.19 |
Presession Hearings of Instruments |
| HRULE 14.20 |
Committee Meeting Schedule; Session, Interim Conflicts |
| HRULE 14.21 |
Changes in Fixed Schedule |
| HRULE 14.22 |
Meeting Rooms; Assignment of |
| HRULE 14.23 |
Weekly Committee Schedule |
| HRULE 14.24 |
Notice; Session Meetings; Interim Meetings |
| HRULE 14.25 |
Notice; Contents |
| HRULE 14.26 |
Meeting List |
| HRULE 14.27 |
Notice of Change from Regular Schedule; Change from Time and Place in Notice |
| HRULE 14.28 |
Meeting; Prohibition unless Notice Requirements met |
| HRULE 14.29 |
Meetings; Cancellation, Notice of |
| HRULE 14.30 |
Agenda; Committee rules |
| HRULE 14.31 |
Roll Call |
| HRULE 14.32 |
Hearings; Persons to be Heard; Sworn Statement |
| HRULE 14.33 |
Filing of prepared statements |
| HRULE 14.34 |
Copies of Instruments Required Prior to Consideration |
| HRULE 14.35 |
Second to Motion Not Required |
| HRULE 14.36 |
Quorum Defined |
| HRULE 14.37 |
Quorum; Members Appointed Pursuant to Rule 14.17 |
| HRULE 14.38 |
Quorum Required to Transact Business |
| HRULE 14.39 |
Absence of Quorum; Authority of Members Present |
| HRULE 14.40 |
Vote Required for Committee Action; Members Disqualified or Recused |
| HRULE 14.41 |
Voting; Members Appointed Pursuant to Rule 14.17 |
| HRULE 14.42 |
Proxy Voting Prohibited |
| HRULE 14.43 |
Roll Call; Record Votes Required |
| HRULE 14.44 |
Committee Chairman; vote |
| HRULE 14.45 |
Report of Interim Study Required |
| HRULE 14.46 |
Reports of Committees; Chairman to Sign |
| HRULE 14.47 |
Minutes of meetings required; contents |
| HRULE 14.48 |
Permanent Committee Records; Disposition |
| HRULE 14.49 |
Joint Committees, Subcommittees; Establishment; Rules Applicable |
| HRULE 14.50 |
Subcommittees; Officers, Studies, Reports, Subcommittees of |
| HRULE 14.51 |
Standing committees; subpoena power, punishment for contempt |
| HRULE 14.52 |
Committees; authority with respect to funds from other than state sources |
| HRULE 14.53 |
Employees |
| HRULE 15.1 |
Applicability |
| HRULE 15.2 |
Select Committee on Discipline and Expulsion |
| HRULE 15.3 |
Sergeant at Arms; duties |
| HRULE 15.4 |
Meetings; notice; quorum; vote; oath |
| HRULE 15.5 |
Employees |
| HRULE 15.6 |
Records |
| HRULE 15.7 |
Initiation of action; House Resolution required |
| HRULE 15.8 |
Procedure in the House of Representatives |
| HRULE 15.9 |
Procedure in committee |
| HRULE 15.10 |
When meetings may be held; report privileged; House action |
| HRULE 15.11 |
Witnesses; subpoena power; punishment for contempt |
| HRULE 15.12 |
Receipt of resignation; authority of presiding officer |
| HRULE CUSTOM, USAGE |
Part II. Custom, Usage, and Practice in the Louisiana House of Representatives |