Adopted

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

House Concurrent Resolution No.   43

BY: Committee

     AMEND by striking lines 200 through 222 and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

     (3)  Proper decorum during any official meeting of a conference committee requires that the committee's deliberation be directly related to the committee's primary purpose of resolving the differences between the two (2) houses that pertain to a specific measure.  Therefore, the following shall not be allowed during any official meeting of a conference committee:

          (a)  The use of a cell phone by a conferee or other person in the room in which the conference committee meeting is being conducted;

          (b)  Any oral, written or electronic communication between a conferee and another person who is not a legislator or legislative staff member, except that a conferee may request that any person at the meeting meet with the conferee outside the room, and any conferee may request any person who is not a member of the conference committee to address the committee in the room.

     Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection shall be subject to expulsion from the committee meeting.  Two (2) conferees may ask the Sergeant-at-Arms of either the Senate or the House of Representatives to enforce the provisions of this subsection.