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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 3 | HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 4 | the Rules of the House of Representatives of the 104th General | ||||||
| 5 | Assembly are amended by changing Rule 42 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (House Rule 42) | ||||||
| 7 | 42. Consent Calendar. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) The Clerk shall include a Consent Calendar on the | ||||||
| 9 | Daily Calendar and designate it as a separate calendar. The | ||||||
| 10 | Consent Calendar shall contain 3 orders of business: Consent | ||||||
| 11 | Calendar - Second Reading, Consent Calendar - Third Reading, | ||||||
| 12 | and Consent Calendar - Resolutions. Within each order of | ||||||
| 13 | business, bills or resolutions shall be listed in separate | ||||||
| 14 | groups according to the number of required days each has been | ||||||
| 15 | on that order of business on the Consent Calendar. No more than | ||||||
| 16 | 25 80 bills and resolutions shall be listed in each group. All | ||||||
| 17 | bills or resolutions to which amendments have been adopted | ||||||
| 18 | shall be so designated. | ||||||
| 19 | (b) No debate is in order regarding any item on the Consent | ||||||
| 20 | Calendar. The Presiding Officer, however, shall allow a | ||||||
| 21 | reasonable time for questions from the floor and answers to | ||||||
| 22 | those questions. No amendment from the floor is in order | ||||||
| 23 | regarding any bill or resolution on the Consent Calendar. | ||||||
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| 1 | (c) A bill on the Consent Calendar shall stand for 2 | ||||||
| 2 | legislative days on the order of Consent Calendar - Second | ||||||
| 3 | Reading, and for at least 2 legislative days on the order of | ||||||
| 4 | Consent Calendar - Third Reading, before a vote on the final | ||||||
| 5 | passage may be taken. Resolutions on the Consent Calendar | ||||||
| 6 | shall stand for at least 4 legislative days before a vote on | ||||||
| 7 | adoption may be taken. One record vote on final passage shall | ||||||
| 8 | be taken on those bills called for final passage. Immediately | ||||||
| 9 | before a vote on the bills on the Consent Calendar, the | ||||||
| 10 | Presiding Officer shall call to the attention of the members | ||||||
| 11 | the fact that the next legislative action will be the vote on | ||||||
| 12 | the Consent Calendar. | ||||||
| 13 | (d) A bill or resolution may be placed on the Consent | ||||||
| 14 | Calendar by report of a standing committee or special | ||||||
| 15 | committee upon a motion made only for that purpose that is | ||||||
| 16 | adopted by a unanimous vote of the members present. For | ||||||
| 17 | purposes of this subsection (d), a unanimous vote on the | ||||||
| 18 | motion is a vote with no member voting nay. | ||||||
| 19 | (e) No bill regarding revenue or appropriations may be | ||||||
| 20 | placed on the Consent Calendar. No resolution requiring more | ||||||
| 21 | than 60 affirmative votes for adoption and no bill requiring | ||||||
| 22 | more than 60 affirmative votes for passage by the House may be | ||||||
| 23 | placed on the Consent Calendar. | ||||||
| 24 | (f) The Speaker and the Minority Leader shall each appoint | ||||||
| 25 | 3 members who may challenge the presence of any bill or | ||||||
| 26 | resolution on the Consent Calendar. Before a vote on final | ||||||
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| 1 | passage of any item on the Consent Calendar, an item shall be | ||||||
| 2 | removed from the Consent Calendar if (i) 4 or more members, | ||||||
| 3 | (ii) the Principal Sponsor of the bill or resolution, or (iii) | ||||||
| 4 | one or more of the appointed challengers file with the Clerk | ||||||
| 5 | written objections to the presence of the bill or resolution | ||||||
| 6 | on the Consent Calendar. Any bill or resolution so removed may | ||||||
| 7 | not be placed thereafter on the Consent Calendar during that | ||||||
| 8 | session of the General Assembly, unless the member or members | ||||||
| 9 | who objected to the presence of the bill or resolution on the | ||||||
| 10 | Consent Calendar consent in writing to restoration of the bill | ||||||
| 11 | or resolution on the Consent Calendar. | ||||||
| 12 | Any bill removed from the Consent Calendar shall stand on | ||||||
| 13 | the order of Second Reading with short debate status, subject | ||||||
| 14 | to Rule 52, and any resolution so removed shall stand on the | ||||||
| 15 | order of Resolutions with short debate status, subject to Rule | ||||||
| 16 | 52. | ||||||
| 17 | (f-5) Any deadline established under Rule 9 for Third | ||||||
| 18 | Reading and passage shall not apply to bills that remain | ||||||
| 19 | pending on the Consent Calendar on the date of such deadline. | ||||||
| 20 | (g) This Rule shall not be in effect unless ordered by the | ||||||
| 21 | Speaker and may be suspended at any time by order of the | ||||||
| 22 | Speaker. | ||||||
| 23 | (Source: H.R. 36, 103rd G.A.) | ||||||