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Senate Rules SRULE 1.1 CHAPTER 1. SENATE CHAMBER, FLOOR AND OTHER PHYSICAL FACILITIES SRULE 1.2 Senate Chamber SRULE 1.3 Senate Floor SRULE 2.1 CHAPTER 2. OATH OF OFFICE SRULE 2.2 Members elected to fill vacancies; oath SRULE 2.3 Administration of oaths or affirmations SRULE 3.1 CHAPTER 3. OFFICERS SRULE 3.1.1 Nomination of officers; selection procedure SRULE 3.2 President; election; removal; vacancy SRULE 3.3 Duties of President SRULE 3.4 President Pro Tempore; election; removal; vacancy SRULE 3.5 President Pro Tempore; duties SRULE 3.6 Secretary; election; removal; vacancy SRULE 3.7 Duties of Secretary SRULE 3.8 Sergeant at Arms; election; removal; vacancy SRULE 3.9 Duties of Sergeant at Arms SRULE 3.10 Duties of parliamentarian SRULE 3.11 Prohibitions SRULE 4.1 CHAPTER 4. EMPLOYEES SRULE 4.2 Assistant Secretary SRULE 4.3 Pages SRULE 5.1 CHAPTER 5. MEMBERS AND QUORUM SRULE 5.2 Presence recorded SRULE 5.3 Quorum SRULE 5.4 Quorum necessary to transact business SRULE 5.5 Quorum call SRULE 5.6 Compelling attendance of absent members SRULE 5.7 Designation of or referral to certain former senators SRULE 5.8 Repealed by SR 3 of 1992 RS SRULE 6.1 CHAPTER 6. DECORUM AND DEBATE SRULE 6.2 Decorous language SRULE 6.3 Call to order for violation of rules; appeal SRULE 6.4 Clearing the chamber SRULE 6.5 Recognition; rise to address SRULE 6.6 Order of recognition by President SRULE 6.7 Limits on debate; reading of papers SRULE 6.8 Member not to be interrupted while speaking; exceptions SRULE 6.9 Purpose and scope of questions SRULE 6.10 Members to remain in seat; exceptions SRULE 7.1 CHAPTER 7. LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS SRULE 7.2 Numbering of instruments SRULE 7.3 Resolutions; titles SRULE 7.4 Title only bills SRULE 7.5 .Repealed by SR 3 of 1994 2nd EX SRULE 7.6 Legislative instruments and other documents; introduction copies, printing; language indicators in bills; deadline for legislation requests SRULE 7.7 Endorsement of instruments SRULE 7.8 Engrossment SRULE 7.9 Reengrossment SRULE 7.10 Enrollment SRULE 7.11 Signature of President SRULE 7.12 Presentation to Speaker of House SRULE 7.13 Presentation to governor SRULE 7.14 Fiscal notes; capital outlay appropriations, amendments SRULE 7.15 Repealed by SR 179 of 2006 RS SRULE 8.1 CHAPTER 8. AMENDMENTS SRULE 8.2 Amendments; germane to subject SRULE 8.3 Amendments; copies SRULE 8.4 Late approval of Non-governmental Entity Funding Request SRULE 9.1 CHAPTER 9. PREFILING OF LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENTS SRULE 9.2 Numbering prefiled instruments; introduction copies SRULE 9.3 Printing and distribution SRULE 9.4 Referral to committee SRULE 9.5 Authority of author to withdraw SRULE 9.6 Presession committee hearings SRULE 9.7 Provisional reports SRULE 9.8 Prefiled instruments not referred SRULE 9.9 Introduction on first day of session SRULE 10.1 CHAPTER 10. ORDER OF BUSINESS SRULE 10.2 Regular Order of the Day SRULE 10.3 Privileged messages and reports SRULE 10.4 Priority of business SRULE 10.5 Order of business; vote required to change SRULE 10.6 Three readings of bills required SRULE 10.7 Order of consideration of legislative instruments SRULE 10.8 First and second reading of bills SRULE 10.9 Resolutions; introduction and referral; suspension of laws SRULE 10.10 Commitment or amendment; two prior readings required SRULE 10.11 Committee report required SRULE 10.12 Committee report; when considered SRULE 10.13 Passage to third reading; committee amendments to general appropriations bill SRULE 10.14 Bills which have been recommitted SRULE 10.15 Legislative Bureau SRULE 10.16 Special Order SRULE 10.17 Returning to the calendar, subject to call; calling from calendar SRULE 10.17.1 Returning to the calendar; "Bagneris Rule" SRULE 10.18 Vetoed bill; reconsideration SRULE 10.19 Repealed by SR 5 of 1988 RS SRULE 11.1 CHAPTER 11. MOTIONS SRULE 11.2 Possession of the Senate SRULE 11.3 Division of the question SRULE 11.4 Substitute motions SRULE 11.5 Precedence of motions SRULE 11.6 Motion to adjourn SRULE 11.6.1 Motion to limit debate; interruption of speaker; vote SRULE 11.7 Motion to adjourn or recess; effect of SRULE 11.8 Motion to proceed to the consideration of executive business SRULE 11.9 Motion to lay on table SRULE 11.10 Motion to call from the table prohibited SRULE 11.11 Previous question; previous question on the entire SRULE 11.12 Reconsideration SRULE 11.13 Table of Rules Relating to Motions SRULE 12.1 CHAPTER 12. VOTING SRULE 12.2 President's vote; tie vote SRULE 12.3 Presence in chamber required for voting SRULE 12.4 Record vote requirement SRULE 12.5 Putting the question SRULE 12.6 Voting machine out of order SRULE 12.7 Change of vote SRULE 12.8 Declaration of vote by presiding officer SRULE 12.9 Vote after announcement of decision prohibited SRULE 12.10 Vote required to pass legislative instruments SRULE 12.11 Vote required for amendments SRULE 12.12 Conference committee reports; consideration SRULE 12.13 Tie vote SRULE 13.1 CHAPTER 13. COMMITTEES PART 1. JURISDICTION, POWERS, AND FUNCTIONS SRULE 13.2 Chairman and vice chairman SRULE 13.3 Absences from committee meetings; removal SRULE 13.4 Referral to standing committees; jurisdiction SRULE 13.5 Referral of study resolutions SRULE 13.5.1 Legislative instruments with significant fiscal cost; dual committee referral SRULE 13.5.2 Legislative instruments which produce increases or decreases in taxes or fees; dual committee referral SRULE 13.6 Meeting while Senate is in session SRULE 13.7 Executive sessions SRULE 13.8 Committee hearing SRULE 13.9 Committee report SRULE 13.10 Report by substitute SRULE 13.11 Directing committee to report SRULE 13.12 Standing committees; authority for meeting between sessions; authority for forming joint committees or for meeting jointly with House committees; procedure SRULE 13.13 Notice of commencement of interim study SRULE 13.14 Subcommittees; establishment; authority SRULE 13.15 Standing committees; subpoena power, punishment for contempt SRULE 13.16 Standing committees; compensation; expenses SRULE 13.17 Committees; authority with respect to funds from other than state sources SRULE 13.18 Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee; advisor to President SRULE 13.19 Cessation of interim study SRULE 13.20 Select committees SRULE 13.21 Conference committees; membership SRULE 13.22 Senate Executive Committee SRULE 13.51 PART II. UNIFORM RULES OF COMMITTEE PROCEDURE SRULE 13.52 Committee chairman; duties SRULE 13.53 Committee chairman; voting; rights; duties as member SRULE 13.54 Vice chairman; duties SRULE 13.55 Acting chairman SRULE 13.56 Chairman; vacancy SRULE 13.57 Committee members; privileges SRULE 13.58 Amendments; members to offer SRULE 13.59 Members; duty to attend meetings; attendance record SRULE 13.60 Conflict of interest; recusal of members SRULE 13.61 Calling meetings; committee authority SRULE 13.62 Introduction of legislation by committees SRULE 13.63 Consideration of legislative instruments; mandator on author's request SRULE 13.64 Misconduct; report of SRULE 13.65 Interim meeting; approval of President SRULE 13.66 Organizational meetings; calling; notice; purpose SRULE 13.67 Interim studies SRULE 13.68 Presession hearings of instruments SRULE 13.69 Committee meeting schedule during sessions SRULE 13.70 Observance of schedule required; exception SRULE 13.71 Changes in fixed schedules SRULE 13.72 Meeting rooms; assignment SRULE 13.73 Notice of committee meetings during sessions SRULE 13.74 Notice of interim meetings SRULE 13.75 Meetings; prohibited without notice SRULE 13.76 Agenda SRULE 13.77 Roll call SRULE 13.78 Hearings; persons to be heard; sworn statement; designees of elected officials; authority to compensate SRULE 13.79 Filing of prepared statements SRULE 13.80 Copies of instruments required prior to consideration SRULE 13.81 Second to motion not required SRULE 13.82 Quorum defined SRULE 13.83 Quorum; ex officio members SRULE 13.84 Quorum; members appointed pursuant to Rule 13.1(C) SRULE 13.85 Quorum required to transact business SRULE 13.86 Absence of quorum; authority of members present SRULE 13.87 Vote required for committee action; members disqualified or recused SRULE 13.88 Voting; members appointed pursuant to Rule 13.1(C) SRULE 13.89 Proxy voting prohibited SRULE 13.90 Reporting legislative instruments; vote required SRULE 13.91 Roll call; record votes required SRULE 13.92 Report of interim study required SRULE 13.93 Minutes of meetings required; contents SRULE 13.94 Minutes; approval SRULE 13.95 Permanent committee records; disposition SRULE 13.96 Verbatim records SRULE 13.97 Committee secretary; duties SRULE 14.1 CHAPTER 14. JOURNAL AND LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR SRULE 14.2 Journal; votes entered SRULE 14.3 Journal; legislative instruments to be entered, form SRULE 14.4 Journal; documents entered SRULE 14.5 Journal read daily SRULE 14.6 Senate Calendar; publication SRULE 14.7 Repealed by SR 168 of 2014 RS, eff. August 1, 2014. SRULE 15.1 CHAPTER 15. RULES SRULE 15.2 Suspension of rules SRULE 15.3 Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure SRULE 15.4 Declared emergencies; quorum; voting SRULE 16.1 CHAPTER 16. EXECUTIVE BUSINESS: CONFIRMATION PROCEEDINGS SRULE 16.2 Open hearings, sessions, and votes; when closed session may be held SRULE 16.3 Appointees and officers; appearances before Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee; appearances before standing committees SRULE 16.4 Clearing of the Senate SRULE 16.5 Questions; when put SRULE 16.6 Secrecy of confidential communications SRULE 16.7 Penalties for violating confidence of Senate SRULE 16.8 Notification to governor or other official SRULE 17.1 CHAPTER 17. RULES APPLICABLE TO DISCIPLINE AND EXPULSION OF MEMBERS SRULE 17.2 Select Committee on Discipline and Expulsion SRULE 17.3 Sergeant at Arms; duties SRULE 17.4 Meetings; notice; quorum; vote; oath SRULE 17.5 Employees SRULE 17.6 Records SRULE 17.7 Initiation of action; Senate resolution required SRULE 17.8 Procedure in the Senate SRULE 17.9 Procedure in committee SRULE 17.10 When meetings may be held; report privileged; Senate action SRULE 17.11 Subpoena power; punishment for contempt SRULE 17.12 Receipt of resignation; authority of presiding off SRULE 18.1 CHAPTER 18. EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT SRULE 18.2 Statement of Policy Against Sexual Harassment

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