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Senate Amendments to House Concurrent Resolution No. 43

TO THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE:

THIS IS TO INFORM YOU THAT THE SENATE HAS ADOPTED THE AMENDMENTS SET OUT BELOW:

AMENDMENT NO. 1

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.

AMEND by inserting the following after line 517:

If any deadline in this rule falls on Easter Sunday weekend, the deadlines for that week shall be set back two (2) days.

AMEND by striking the sentence beginning on line 333 and substituting the following:

It shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms under the supervision of the respective presiding officers to enforce the foregoing provisions; and any officer, or employee of either house, who shall in any manner violate or connive at the violation of this rule, shall be dismissed from office and service.

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John O. Gilbert

Secretary of the Senate