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that during the sessions of the Senate such privilege shall extend only to the press lobby. The foregoing rule shall not be deemed to exclude such other persons as may be invited to seats on the floor of the Senate by a member or the presiding officer thereof.

Amend Rule 7 by striking out the words "either house" where they occur in the second line and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the Senate."

Amend Rule 12 by striking out the word "house" where it occurs in the ninth and twelfth lines thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate."

Further amend Rule 12 by adding thereto "All points of order raised and the decisions thereon shall be entered in the journal."

Amend Rule 14 by striking out the words "in either house" where they occur in the second and third lines thereof.

Amend Rule 17 to read as follows:

Election and duties of chief clerk. A chief clerk, of the Senate and assembly, respectively shall be elected at the commencement of each session to hold his office at the pleasure of the body electing him. He shall superintend the recording of the journal of the proceedings; the engrossing and enrolling of bills, resolutions, etc.; shall cause to be kept and prepared for the printer the daily journal of the proceedings; and in additien thereto arrange daily for the printer in the numerienk order of each bill or resolution, the amendments offered thereto and all reports and action had thereon, in such manDer as ean most conveniently be printed on slips for daily supplement to the weekir bulletin: shall permit no reeoids or papers belonging to the legislature to be taken out of his custody otherwise than in the regular course of business; shall report any missing papers to the notice of the presiding officer, and generally shall perform, under the direction of the presiding officer, all duties pertaining to his office as clerk, and shall be responsible for all the official acts of his assistants.

Amend Rule 19 by striking out the word "house" where it occurs in the fifth line and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate."

Amend Rule 20 by striking out the following: "The clerk shall provide a substantial cover for bills. Such envelopes and covers for each house shall be distinguished by the color thereof." and insert in lieu thereof the following: "The clerk shall provide a substantial back for bills. Such envelopes and backs shall be distinguished from those of the Assembly by color."

Amend Rule 21 to read as follows:

Election and duties of sergeant-at-arms. A sergeant-atarms of the Senate and assembly, respectively, shall be elected at the commencement of each session to hold his office at the pleasure of the body electing him. It shall be his duty to execute all orders of the house or its presiding officer, and to perform all the duties that may be assigned to him connected with the police and good order of the body; and to exercise the supervision over the ingress and egress of all persons to and from the chamber, and particularly to enforce the provisions of Rule 5 of the Senate rules relating to lobbyists and lobbying; to see that messages, etc., are promptly executed; that the hall is properly ventilated and is open for the use of the members from 8 a. m. until 11 p. m., and to perform all other services pertaining to the office of sergeant-at-arms.

Amend Rule 23 to read as follows:

Standing committees of Senate. The following standing committees shall be elected by the Senate as near the commencement of the session as may be, namely:

On Judiciary, seven members.

On Corporations, seven members.

On Education and Public Welfare, seven members.

On State Affairs, seven members.

On Engrossed Bills, three members.

On Revision, three members.

On Enrolled Bills, three members.

Each of the above committees shall elect its own chairman. The president pro tem, and the respective chairmen of the committees on Judiciary, on Corporations, on Education and

Public Welfare, on State Affairs, and of the joint committee on Finance, and the chairmen of such special committees of the Senate as shall be created during any session shall constitute a committee on Legislative Procedure.

Joint committee on Finance. The Senate shall elect, as soon as may be after the commencement of the session five members to the joint committee on Finance, which members shall elect a chairman of said joint committee.

Strike out Rule 24.

Amend Rule 29 to read as follows:

Business in committees; notice of meeting. All business referred to a committee shall be taken up within two three weeks, and if not at once disposed of a time shall be fixed by the committee for the final hearing thereon and a report thereof made to the house Senate. The chairman of each committee shall at the end of every second week report the number of bids in his hands. At the end of each week, each committee clerk shall report to the chief clerk the state of business in his committee, which report shall be printed in the weekly bulletin provided by section 20.14 of the statute. The day, hour, and place of hearing before any committee shall be posted on the bulletin board of each house and such notice shall specify the number, author, and title of the bill or resolution to be considered.

Strike out Rule 29a.

Strike out Rule 30.

Amend Rule 31 to read as follows:

Revision. The committee on Revision chief clerk shall report out all bills from the revision room by the close of the sixth week of the session unless otherwise ordered by the house to which the bill belongs Senate.

The revision clerk of said committee, where bills submitted for its consideration revision are duplicate or identical in subject matter with other bills introduced in either house, shall make such notation in respect thereto on the corresponding bill envelopes of each house as will apprise any committee considering any such bill in either house of the bill in the other At the close of the sixth week of the session, the re

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vision clerk of the committee on revision shall proceed to note upon the envelope of each Senate bill the numbers of other bills in either house affecting the same section of the statutes, and, in so far as practicable, the numbers of other bills in either house, affecting the same subject matter, where such bills affect other sections of the statutes. Upon the receipt of the assembly bills in the Senate the revision clerk shall make similar notations upon these bills, if such notation has not previously been made. For the purpose of carrying out this provision, such these provisions, the revision clerk of the revision committee shall have access to the bills in the hands of each Senate committee, and shall be assisted by the respective committee clerks.

Amend Rule 33 to read as follows:

Bills to be referred to committee on revision. Amendments to be submitted to revision clerk. The chairman clerk of any committee ordering any bill reported for passage with any amendment shall submit such bill and amendment to the eommittee on Revision revision clerk, which who shall return the same to such chairman committee clerk, with its approval if such amendment conforms to the rules, and, if not, with its suggestions in writing, which suggestions shall be submitted to the chairman of the committee. If the suggestions of the committee on Revision are rejected in whole or in part, such action shall be noted upon the upper right hand corner of the bill envelope, and the suggestions, or so much thereof as shall have been rejected, shall be enclosed in the envelope with the bill, and the fact shall be announeed by the chief eierli before the bill is ordered engrossed. Any bill not having been before said committee on Revision referred for revision which shall be ordered to a third reading shall then be so referred. to said committee. The eommittee on Revision revision clerk shall only suggest such amendments as do not change the scopeand effect of the bill. but in a written report accompanying the bill, when returned to the committee from which it was received, attention may be called to such matters as Are deemed material.

Amend Rule 34 by striking out the word "house" in the tenth line thereof on page 108 and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate."

Amend Rule 35 by striking out the word "house" in the fourth line thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate."

Amend Rule 36 by striking out the word "house" in the fourth line and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate."

Amend Rule 37 by inserting at the end of the first paragraph thereof the words: "Unless otherwise ordered an unfinished calendar of a preceding day shall be first in order as the unfinished business of the Senate."

Further amend by striking out the word "house" where it occurs in lines five, on page 108, and six, on page 109, and the word "legislature" in line 10 on page 109, and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Senate" in each case.

Amend Rule 38 to read:

Engrossing bills; eommittee. Each bill ordered engrossed and read a third time shall be, under the direction of the engrossing clerk, carefully typewritten, with all amendments adopted to the original bill reduced into the text, placed in a new envelope, upon which the chief clerk's endorsements on the original envelope shall be carefully engrossed, and, with the original, shall be delivered by the engrossing elerk to the committee on engrossed bills, whose duty it shall be to earesally compare the enerned bill and envelope with the original bill and envelope, and when correctly engrossed, to sei report to the chief clerk, who shall report it correctly engrossed to the Senate. The original shall then be filed by the chief clerk and the engrossed bill shall thereafter be considered as the original. If it shall be subsequently found, however, that mistake has been made in engrossing the bill, the chief clerk shall have the power under Rule 18 to correct such error in engrossing. A bill which shall be "ordered engrossed and read a third time" without any amendment thereto having been adopted, shall not be engrossed, but shall be placed upon the next calendar under the order "Bills Ready for Third Reading;" and when a bill which shall have been amended only by a substitute adopted without amendment shall be "ordered engrossed and read a third time" the original substitute in an engrossed envelope shall be the engrossed bill.

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