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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2021

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

AMENDING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE YEARS

2019 AND 2020

     Introduced By: Representative Rebecca M. Kislak

     Date Introduced: January 12, 2021

     Referred To: House Rules

     RESOLVED, That section (12)(a) of the rules for the House of Representatives adopted

by the House of Representatives at its January session A.D. 2019 entitled "House Resolution

Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the years 2019 and 2020", be and the

same is hereby amended to read as follows:

     (20)(a) No petition to discharge a bill or resolution from Committee shall be appropriate

for presentation until after the fiftieth (50th) legislative day and until the bill or resolution shall

have been in the possession of the Committee for no less than sixteen (16) legislative days. On

any day after those requirements have been met, the prime sponsor of a bill or resolution may

present a petition in writing to discharge the committee from further consideration of a public bill

or resolution which has been referred to a committee, and by no other procedure, but only one

petition may be presented for a public bill or resolution during the course of a session. The

petition shall be placed in the custody of the recording clerk of the House who shall arrange

some convenient place for the signatures of the members to be placed thereon in the presence of

the recording clerk. The signatures required may be obtained in the normal course and it shall not

be necessary that they be affixed at the clerk's desk. A signature may be withdrawn by a member

at any time before the petition receives sufficient signatures to become effective, and such

petitions shall become effective, and shall serve to discharge a committee from further

consideration of the public bill or resolution, and shall cause said public bill or resolution to be

placed upon the calendar for action, when any thirty-eight (38) representatives shall have affixed

their signatures thereto, provided, however, that if, after the bill or resolution is calendared but

before it is taken up, enough signatures are withdrawn so that the number of effective signatures

falls below thirty-eight (38), the bill or resolution shall pass off the calendar.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

AMENDING THE RULES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE YEARS

2019 AND 2020

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     This resolution would amend the house rules by removing the requirement that a bill not

be discharged until after the fiftieth legislative day.

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