2018 -- S 2680

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2018

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S E N A T E   R E S O L U T I O N

AMENDING THE RULES OF THE SENATE

     Introduced By: Senators Nesselbush, Jabour, Euer, Crowley, and Sheehan

     Date Introduced: March 20, 2018

     Referred To: Senate Judiciary

     RESOLVED, that the Rules of the Senate as adopted on March 30th, 2017 as Senate

Resolution 531 Substitute A, as amended, be and they are hereby amended as follows to wit:

     By deleting therefrom Rule 6.10 as it presently appears, to wit:

     6.10 Discharge from Committee.

     No bill shall be taken or called from any such committee, or the committee discharged

from the consideration thereof, except:

     Any senator may present a petition, in writing, to discharge a committee from further

consideration of a bill which has been in the possession of the committee for thirty (30)

legislative days without having been considered, but only one petition on a particular bill may be

presented during the course of a session. Prior to presenting the petition, the senator must

introduce a resolution of intent to discharge such committee. Such resolution of intent shall

contain the bill number and the committee to be discharged. The presiding officer shall cause the

resolution of intent to be printed in the journal of the senate. The petition shall be placed in the

custody of the presiding officer who shall arrange some convenient place for the signatures of the

senators to be placed thereon in the presence of the reading clerk during the hours in which the

senate is in session. A signature may be withdrawn by a senator at any time before the petition

shall become effective. On the first day of each week, there shall be printed in the journal of the

senate the petitions pending under these rules, together with the signatures thereto; provided,

however, that as soon as a majority of all the senators elected to the senate shall have affixed their

signatures to any such petition to discharge a committee under this rule, the presiding officer shall

cause notice thereof to be given to chair and clerk of the committee to which such bill was

referred, and such notice shall, thereupon, automatically discharge the committee from further

consideration of the bill and the bill shall be placed upon the calendar in accordance with section

7.6 hereof. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to change the deadline for

consideration as specified in section 6.9.

     6.10 Discharge from Committee.

     A majority of members elected to the Senate can direct a written communication to the

Presiding Officer requesting that any bill, joint resolution or other business that has been referred

to a standing committee, except those assigned to the finance committee, be reported to the full

Senate for a floor vote by the members.

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