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RULES

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

ADOPTED JANUARY 5, 1916.

RULES OF THE SENATE.

Order of Business.

1. President to take the chair; journal to be read. Order of business.

Of the President.

2. (1) To decide questions of order; name committees. (2) To assign doorkeepers to their respective duties and stations.

(3) To certify passage of all bills.

Of the Temporary President.

3. In the absence of the Lieutenant-Governor, Temporary President to act.

Of the Clerk.

4. (1) To have journals printed and placed on file. (2) To furnish, daily, printed list of general orders; to see that all bills are acted upon in order in which reported; calendar.

(3) To present bills originating in Senate to Governor, To transmit bills to

and to enter on journals.

Assembly.

(4) To designate reporters.

Of the Sergeant-at-Arms.

5. To be in attendance on the Senate, to preserve order.

Of the Rights and Duties of Senators.

6. (1) Assignment of seats.

(2) Relative to presentation of petitions, reports, resolutions, etc.

(3) To preserve order while journals or public papers are being read.

(4) Debate; Senators to address the President, and not to proceed until recognized limitation; President to decide who is entitled to floor.

(5) Within bar of Senate when question is stated, to vote, unless, etc.

(6) Wishing to be excused from voting, may make brief statement.

(7) and (8) Absentees to be sent for.

Committees and their Duties.

7. Standing committees.

8. On printed and engrossed bills, to examine all bills, resolutions, etc., and report as correctly printed or engrossed before third reading.

9. On revision, duties of.

10. Reports of committees on bills; proceedings when not considered at time of making.

Of General Orders and Special Orders.

11. What to constitute the general orders; business of; how taken up.

12. Special orders.

Of the Committee of the Whole.

13. Rules to be observed in; may strike out enacting clause in bills, and if report is agreed to by Senate, bill to be deemed rejected.

14. Bills, committed to, to be read through by sections; amendments not offered in, not in order except by unanimous consent.

15. Motion to rise and report progress always in order.

16. How introduced.

Of Bills.

17. Proceedings when reported by committee of the whole, when deemed lost; final question to be taken immediately after third reading.

18. To receive three readings; not to be amended or committed until twice read; not to be read a third time out of its order; resolutions proposing amendments to Constitution to be treated as bills, to be acted on in committee of the whole.

19. Or resolution amending Constitution, after ordered to a third reading, may not be amended, except, etc.

20. Two-third bills.

21. Question on final passage to be taken by ayes and nays. 22. To be printed in the order as reported by committee, unless, etc.

23. When final vote on, may be reconsidered; to be read by sections.

24. To retain place when quorum not present.

Of Motions and their Precedence.

25. When question is before Senate, no motion to be received, except, etc.; motion to adjourn or lay on the table to be decided without debate.

26. When to be reduced to writing.

27. When questions to be divided.

28. Certain to preclude debate of main question. 29. Filling of blanks; question, how taken.

30. Reconsideration.

31. Concurrent resolutions.

32. Closing debate.

33. Of a quorum,

Of Closing Debate,

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