Bill Summaries: H1 (2018 Extra Session 2)

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  • Summary date: Aug 24 2018 - View summary

    Adopts the permanent rules of the 2017 Regular Session of the House of Representatives as the permanent rules of the 2018 Second Extra Session with the following changes.

    Amends Rule 1 to set the House to convene at 10:00 a.m. on the next legislative day when the House adjourns without having fixed an hour for reconvening. 

    Provides that the membership of the Committee on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House; the Ethics Committee; the Judiciary I, II, III, and IV Committees; the Finance Committee; and the Appropriations Committee consists of those who were appointed during the Regular Session and other members as the Speaker may appoint at the beginning of the Second Extra Session and that the committee chairs are those appointed by the Speaker during the Regular Session.

    Establishes the standing committees of the House as: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House; Ethics; Judiciary I; Judiciary II; Judiciary III; Judiciary IV; Finance; and Appropriations.

    Requires that bills and resolutions be introduced by submitting the bill or resolution to the Principal Clerk's Office.

    Limits resolutions that may be introduced or considered to a resolution adjourning the session. 

    Limits bills that may be introduced or considered to those proposing amendments to the North Carolina Constitution.

    Exempts adjournment resolutions and constitutional amendment bills from Rule 31.1 (concerning deadlines on introduction and receipt of bills, prohibiting blank bills, and imposing the 15-bill limit).

    Allows a resolution or bill to be placed on the calendar without being referred to a committee and on the same legislative day of its introduction or receipt from the Senate. 

    Allows a bill reported favorably by a committee or received for concurrence to be placed on the favorable calendar on the same day it is reported and does not require a proposed committee substitute to be distributed electronically to committee members before it is considered by the committee.

    Provides that the first reading and reference to a standing committee of a House bill occurs on the legislative day of its introduction and that the first reading and reference to a committee of a Senate bill occurs on the legislative day of its receipt on messages from the Senate. Requires the Speaker to give notice at each subsequent reading whether it is the second or third reading. Allows a bill to be read more than once on the same day, unless it is governed by Section 23 of Article II of the NC Constitution.

    Allows a conference report to be placed on the calendar for the legislative day on which the report is received.

    Allows any member who wants to cosponsor an introduced bill or resolution to do so on the day during which the bill or resolution was first read and referred, but only while the House has possession of the bill or resolution.