Assembly Resolution No. 493

BY: M. of A. Peoples-Stokes

AMENDING section 6 of Rule V and section 10 of Rule
IV of the Assembly rules, in relation to the
consideration of bills

RESOLVED, That subdivision b of section 6 of Rule V of the Assembly
Rules is amended to read as follows:

b. Unless otherwise provided by these Rules, no member shall speak,
except in his or her place, nor more than [twice] once on any bill or
amendment, without leave of the House and no member shall speak for more
than fifteen minutes [at a time] except by consent of two-thirds of the
members present[;]. The floor leader of each conference or his or her
designee may be granted a second, additional fifteen minutes to speak
during the debate on any bill or amendment. Consideration of any bill
and amendment shall not exceed five hours; with four hours allocated for
debate and up to one hour allocated for explanations of vote; provided,
however that a member desiring to explain his or her vote upon the final
passage of a bill or upon the passage of a resolution requiring the
expenditure of money may make a brief statement, not to exceed two
minutes, in explanation of such vote; and further provided that in
addition to the foregoing, the sponsor of a bill may make a statement
not to exceed five minutes for the purpose of opening debate on such
bill. Except as otherwise provided by these Rules for concurrent
resolutions, no member shall speak more than once and for no more than
five minutes on any resolution without leave of the House. Debate on
any resolution, except as otherwise provided, shall be limited to thirty
minutes. Members may be granted permission to submit a written statement
to extend upon their remarks on the floor for the record; such remarks
must comply in all respects with the rules and customs and practices of
the House relating to debate to be included in the record.

RESOLVED, That subparagraph (d) of paragraph 1 of subdivision b of
section 10 of Rule IV of the Assembly Rules is amended to read as
follows:

(d) the review of each message of necessity issued by the Governor
pursuant to Article III of the Constitution and the ordering of a bill
to a special order of second and third reading for which any such
message has been issued[; provided, however that prior to the ordering
of a

bill for second and third reading, such message must be accepted by an
affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the Committee on
Rules];