COMMITTEES. Rule 42. The standing committees shall be as follows, viz.: 1. Judiciary. 2. State Prisons and House of Reform. 3. Railroads and Commerce. 4. Charitable Institutions. 5. Education. 6. Revenue and Taxation. 7. Agriculture and Manufacture. 8. Land Titles. 3. Kentucky Statutes. 10. Municipalities. 11. Classification of Cities and Towns. 12. Constitutional Amendments. 13. Proposition and Grievances. 14. Claims. 15. Ways and Means. 16. Public Morals. 17. Internal Improvements. 18. Military Affairs. 19. Sinking Fund. 20. Banks and Banking. 21. Court of Appeals. 22. Circuit Courts. 23. County and City Courts. 24. Codes of Practice. 25. Criminal Laws. 26. Agricultural and Mechanical College. 27. Immigration and Labor. 28. Insurance. 29. Corporate Institutions. 30. Retrenchment and Reform. 31. Public Health. 32. Public Offices and Library. 33. Mines and Mining. 34. Suffrage and Election. 35. Legislative Accounts. 36. Public Warehouses and Granaries. 37. Rules. 38. Printing. 39. Federal Relations. 40. Enrollments. And it shall not be competent for the House, by vote or otherwise, to add any one to the membership of either of said committees. Rule 43. A majority of any committee may proceed to business. Rule 44. The Committee on Enrollments may report at any time when not excluded by a privileged motion: Provided, That when any committee shall have occupied the morning hour on two days, it shall not be in order for such committee to report further until the other committees are called: And provided also, That no bill shall be reported by any committee which was introduced after said committee began to report. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE. Rule 45. It shall be the standing order of the day throughout the session for the House to resolve itself into a committee of the whole House on the State of the Commonwealth. Rule 46. When a bill or other matter is committed to a committee of the whole House, the question of going into the committee of the whole shall be first in the order of the day. Rule 47. In committee of the whole House, bills shall be read and debated by sections, leaving the preamble and the title to be last considered. Rule 48. All amendments made to an original House bill or resolution in committee shall be incorporated in the original, and so reported. Rule 49. All questions whether in committee or in the House, shall be disposed of in the order in which they are moved, except that, in filling blanks, the largest sum and the most remote day shall be first put. Rule 50. The rules of the House shall be observed in . committee when applicable, excepting a rule limiting the time of speaking. FINES. Rule 51. All fines imposed on absentees shall be collected by the sergeant-at-arms and covered into the Treasury. CLERKS' DUTY. Rule 52. The clerk or assistant clerk shall report all bills. or resolutions to the Senate, unless otherwise ordered by the House. Rule 53. No member or other person shall visit or remain by the clerk's table when the yeas and nays are being called. Rule 54. All bills and joint resolutions originating in the Senate and reported to this House as passed therein, shall be read by their titles, when the clerk shall refer them to appropriate committees, unless otherwise ordered by the House; but if one-fifth of the members present object to this rule at any time, it shall not prevail. When a bill has had its first reading it shall be placed by the clerk in a calendar to be kept by him, and said calendar shall be separate from the bills in the order of the day. Each day before the House enters into the considerations of the orders of the day, the clerk shall take up the calendar, and give all bills therein their second reading, except such bills as have been placed there upon that day. DUTIES OF ENROLLING CLERK. Rule 55. The enrolling clerk of the House shall take charge of all House bills so soon as they are reported back to the House and ready to be enrolled; keep an accurate account of and carefully preserve all of them; cause them to be plainly and legibly enrolled without blots or erasures, and present the same when enrolled to the Committee on Enrollments, who shall immediately report them to the House for comparison and the signature of the Speaker; and when signed by the Speaker of the House, the enrolling clerk shall deliver them at once to the Senate, or such committee as may be authorized to receive them in that body. All original House bills shall be returned by the enrolling clerk to the clerk of the House at the time of the signing of the enrolled bills, and the clerk of the House shall carefully preserve them. DOORKEEPER AND SERGEANT-AT-ARMS. Rule 56. Five minutes before the hour for the meeting of the House each day the doorkeeper and sergeant-at-arms shal! see that the floor of the House is cleared of all per sons, except those privileged to remain. (See Rules 10 and 11.) And the sergeant-at-arms is empowered to deputize as many assistant sergeants-at-arms as he may deem necessary to carry out the order of the Speaker under Rule 4 of these rules. MOTION TO RECONSIDER. Rule 57. A motion to reconsider any vote of the House shall not be in order after the lapse of three (3) days from the time said vote was taken. If any bill on which a reconsideration is desired is not in the possession of the House, a committee shall be appointed, if the House so desires, to take necessary steps to secure the return of the bill to the House. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Rule 58. On all questions not provided for in the foregoing rules, the House shall be governed by parliamentary law or usage: Provided, The author of any measure shall have five minutes' time in which to explain upon the motion to lay on the table. Rule 59. Whenever any committee shall report to the House a bill with the expression of opinion that it should not pass, said bill shall not be entitled to a second reading unless it is so ordered by a vote of the House; and upon the question whether or not said bill shall be read a second time, the report of the committee to the contrary notwithstanding, no debate shall be allowed, except that the originator of the bill, or any one indicated by him, shall have ten minutes in which to explain the bill; and any one member of the committee who favors the report of the committee may have a like time in which to explain the action of the committee, and then if said bill shall be ordered to a second reading, it shall be ready for recommitment, commitment, amendment, or debate. Rule 60. No appropriation shall be reported in any appropriation bill, or be in order as an amendment thereto, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law. Rule 61. That during the last ten days of the session the committee on rules shall have power at any time to call from the orders of the day any bill or resolution and propose the same to the House for consideration, and should the House decide by vote to consider it it shall be submitted for passage. The committee shall be authorized to call from other committees any bill or resolution in their hands and have them advanced to the reading to which the bills may be entitled. Rule 62. When in the opinion of a majority of the Committee on Rules, a reasonable time has been given a board for determining a contest for a seat in this House to fairly hear and determine the contest submitted to them, and they have not reported on same, the said Committee on Rules, or a majority thereof may, in writing, request the Speaker to give verbal notice to said board to make their report not later than two days thereafter. Upon said request in writing. the Speaker shall give notice to said board that they will be required to make a report not later than two days thereafter. At the expiration of said two days after notice having been given by the Speaker if said board fail or refuse to make their said report, the Speaker shall call same from said board and when so called from said board, said contest shall stand for immediate consideration and determination by the House and shall have precedence over all other business. When there is more than one contest before the House for consideration, the Speaker shall fix the order in which the same shall be heard and determined. Rule 63. If any bill, motion or resolution has been by vote laid upon the table and a motion is made to reconsider the vote by which the bill, motion or resolution was laid upon the table and said motion to reconsider is laid upon the table, then no further motion shall be entertained relative to said bill, motion or resolution, unless by the unanimous consent of the House. SOUTH TRIMBLE. C. A. NELSON, CLAUDE B. TERRELL, ABRAM RENICK. |