Bill Summaries: S1 (2018 Extra Session)

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  • Summary date: Jul 24 2018 - View summary

    Adopts the permanent rules of the 2017 Regular Session as the permanent rules of the 2018 First Extra session with the following changes.

    Amends Rule 10, concerning points of order, to allow the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate to act when the Chairman of the Committee is absent.

    Limits the standing committees to the Senate Select Committee on Elections and the Rules and Operations of the Senate, to be comprised of the members appointed during the 2017 Regular Session.

    Requires introduced bills to include on the e-jacket the title of the document and the name of the Senator or Senators presenting it. Requires the Principal Clerk of the Senate to receive, number, and present each bill to the Senate for first reading on the day it is filed.

    Limits resolutions that may be introduced or considered in the Senate to those establishing the rules governing the First Extra Session and adjourning the First Extra Session sine die. 

    Limits the bills, parts of bills, or amendments to bills that may be introduced or considered in the Senate to those considering election laws.

    Requires all bills introduced and all House bills received upon a message from the House of Representatives, upon presentation to the Senate, to be read in the regular order of business by their number and title, constituting first reading of the bill on the day on which they are received.

    Requires all bills reported by committee to be placed before the Senate for second reading and immediate consideration upon passage.

    Provides that if any committee recommends adoption of an amendment or committee substitute of a bill or resolution, the amendment or committee substitute is considered adopted upon the reading of the committee report. Allows the bill or resolution, as amended, or its adopted committee substitute to be placed on the calendar for the same legislative day or re-referred if the bill or resolution was serially referred.

    Requires that when a bill or resolution has passed its second reading, it be placed on the calendar for immediate consideration on its third reading, unless prohibited by Section 23 of Article II of the North Carolina Constitution.

    Provides that when the House has adopted an amendment or a committee substitute for a Senate bill and the bill has been returned for concurrence, the Senate may concur on the same legislative day.

    Allows a designated employee to receive bills vetoed by the Governor if the Senate Principal Clerk is absent. Provides that if the veto message is received on a day when the Senate is in session, it may be read in the Senate on the day of its receipt, but if it is received on a day when the Senate is not in session, or if was not read on the legislative day when it was received, then it must be read on the next legislative day.