Bill > SR640

This resolution amends Senate Rules 52 and 84 to change procedural requirements for bills and motions within the Missouri Senate. Specifically, Rule 52 is updated to require that Senate bills reported from a committee must lie on the table, meaning they are set aside and not immediately acted upon, for one day before being perfected (meaning formally approved and ordered to be printed in their final form) and ordered printed. Similarly, House bills reported from committee, and Senate bills with House amendments, will also lie on the table for one day before being read for the third time and finally passed. Conference committee reports, which are agreements reached by a committee appointed to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill, will also lie on the table for one day before the Senate acts on them. Rule 84 is amended to increase the number of senators required to demand the "previous question" from ten to eighteen. The "previous question" is a procedural motion used to end debate and force a vote on an issue, and this change means more senators are needed to invoke it. The rule also clarifies that once the previous question is demanded and sustained by a majority vote, debate ceases, and the Senate proceeds directly to voting on any pending motions, amendments, and finally the main question.

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