CRC - 2017                                COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 103
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             03/19/2018 06:36 PM       .                                
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       Commissioner Lee moved the following:
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete line 10
    4  and insert:
    5         Sections 3 and 4 of Article III of the State Constitution
    6  are
    7  
    8         After line 50
    9  insert:
   10         SECTION 4. Quorum and procedure.—
   11         (a) A majority of the membership of each house shall
   12  constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day
   13  to day and compel the presence of absent members in such manner
   14  and under such penalties as it may prescribe. Each house shall
   15  determine its rules of procedure. Joint rules shall be adopted
   16  governing procedures that require the consent of both houses,
   17  including procedures regarding the operation of conference
   18  committees.
   19         (b) Sessions of each house shall be public; except sessions
   20  of the senate when considering appointment to or removal from
   21  public office may be closed.
   22         (c) Each house shall keep and publish a journal of its
   23  proceedings; and upon the request of five members present, the
   24  vote of each member voting on any question shall be entered on
   25  the journal. In any legislative committee or subcommittee, the
   26  vote of each member voting on the final passage of any
   27  legislation pending before the committee, and upon the request
   28  of any two members of the committee or subcommittee, the vote of
   29  each member on any other question, shall be recorded.
   30         (d) Each house may punish a member for contempt or
   31  disorderly conduct and, by a two-thirds vote of its membership,
   32  may expel a member.
   33         (e) The rules of procedure of each house shall provide that
   34  all legislative committee and subcommittee meetings of each
   35  house, and joint conference committee meetings, shall be open
   36  and noticed to the public. The rules of procedure of each house
   37  shall further provide that all prearranged gatherings, between
   38  more than two members of the legislature, or between the
   39  governor, the president of the senate, or the speaker of the
   40  house of representatives, the purpose of which is to agree upon
   41  formal legislative action that will be taken at a subsequent
   42  time, or at which formal legislative action is taken, regarding
   43  pending legislation or amendments, shall be reasonably open to
   44  the public. All open meetings shall be subject to order and
   45  decorum. This section shall be implemented and defined by the
   46  rules of each house, and such rules shall control admission to
   47  the floor of each legislative chamber and may, where reasonably
   48  necessary for security purposes or to protect a witness
   49  appearing before a committee, provide for the closure of
   50  committee meetings. Each house shall be the sole judge for the
   51  interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of this section.
   52  
   53  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete lines 2 - 5
   56  and insert:
   57         Sections 3 and 4 of Article III of the State
   58         Constitution to provide that the Legislature convene
   59         for regular session on the second Tuesday after the
   60         first Monday in January of each even-numbered year and
   61         to require the adoption of joint rules for specified
   62         purposes.