Assembly

Prayer beginning daily sessions   5 (1)(i), 31

Precedence of motions   65

Precedent (definition)   95 (57)

Presiding officer, see also Speaker, Speaker pro tempore

amendment, rules on admissibility when germaneness
is questioned   54 (2)

announces order that members may speak (no appeal)   56 (2)

appeal of ruling by (roll call required)   62 (7)

biennial session, inauguration day:

business before assembly, announces   3m (1)(b)

chamber, maintains order,
decorum, and quiet in   3m (1)(f), 6 (1)(g)

chief clerk of preceding session presides   5 (1)(a)

daily sessions, calls to order   3m (1)(a)

legislative reference bureau chief presides when chief clerk
of preceding session not available   5 (1)(a)

call of assembly, state question   83 (2m), (4)

debate, maintains order during   3m (1)(e)   decides who has the floor (no appeal)   56 (2)

decorum, quiet, and order, preserves   3m (1)(f), 26 (1)

definition   95 (57m)

disturbances in chamber, instructs
sergeant at arms   3m (1)(f), 6 (1)(g)

fiscal estimate, order legislative fiscal bureau to prepare   99

germaneness of amendment, rules on when questioned   54 (2)

joint survey committee, may refer proposals
to one or more simultaneously with
referral to standing committee   42 (1)(b), 45 (4)

member designated by presiding officer may preside
temporarily   4 (3)

messages from other branches of government, receives   3m (1)(h)

motions, stated and put by   3m (1)(c), 63

order, quiet, and decorum, preserves   3m (1)(f), 26 (1)

parliamentary procedure, informs
members on   3m (1)(g), 57 (1)(e)

presides over assembly   3m (1)(a)

points of order, rules on   3m (1)(g), 62 (3), (3m)

advisement, may take under   62 (3)(b)

expansion of question permitted   69 (4)

time for ruling   62 (3m)

proposal, refers to standing committee, special committee,
next calendar, or rules committee
on rules   29 (1), 42, 45, 89 (2)

question for current action, stated by   75

quiet, decorum, and order, preserves   3m (1)(f), 26 (1)

recognition of members seeking floor, decides
order of (no appeal)   56 (2)

rereferral to committee   45

respect to   26 (2)

roll call vote:

may order on any question   3m (1)(d), 76 (3)

required, when, see also Quick Finder

votes and is recorded in   78

speaking: member not to cross or leave floor   26 (2)

speaker and speaker pro tempore: election, term of office   1

temporary, elected when speaker, speaker pro tempore,
majority leader, assistant majority leader, and
majority caucus leader are absent   4 (2)

votes and is recorded on all roll call votes   78

voting:

announces results of   3m (1)(c)

roll call, may order on any question   3m (1)(d), 76 (3)

roll call required, when, see also Quick Finder

states question   75

Press, radio, and TV representatives admitted to floor of
assembly when engaged in reporting proceedings   25 (3)

Printed documents, consent required to read from   59 (3), 90 (2)

Privilege: assembly, personal, or special   61

Privilege, questions of, see Questions of privilege

Privileged motions and requests (definition)   95 (59)

Privileged motions and requests during debate   65 (1)

Privileged resolution   33 (3), 43

request to introduce and ask consideration of,
precedence of   65 (1)(i)

to reprimand, censure, or expel a member, procedure   21, 43 (3)

Proposal (definition), see also Assembly resolution, Bill,
Joint resolution, Motion, and Petition   95 (60)

Proposals to be available at least 24 hours before
consideration   35 (1)

Proposals, executive action on 24 hours after made public   17d

Public health and public safety, committee on
(standing committee)   9 (1)(t)

Public hearing, see also Schedule of committee activities:

advance notice   14 (2)

announced in schedule of committee activities   14 (2)

definition of “hearing"   95 (32)

may be rescheduled for larger room   11 (3)

not required for special, extended, or extraordinary
session proposals   93 (3)

reproduced copies of proposal to be available to public   14 (3)

scheduled at discretion of committee chairperson   14 (1)

schedules posted on bulletin boards of assembly   14 (2), 93 (3)

Publication of assembly rules   94

Publications of assembly, see also Joint Rules 71 to 79   38

Q

Question (definition)   95 (61)

Question before assembly conforms to committee
recommendation; exceptions   47

Question, division of, see Division of the question

Question lost when vote results in tie   81

Question on appeal of ruling by presiding officer, how stated   62 (6)

Questions, how stated   75

Questions of privilege:

assembly privilege explained   61 (1)

personal privilege explained   61 (2)

precedence limited to immediate consideration   61 (5)

precedence of   61 (4)

privileged motions and requests (definition)   95 (59)

special privilege explained   61 (3)

under control of presiding officer and assembly   61