Modifies Senate Rule 50 to allow each chair of a standing committee to report no more than three bills, with certain exceptions, when the Senate is on the order of business of reports of standing committees

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Modifies Senate Rule 50 to allow each chair of a standing committee to report no more than three bills, with certain exceptions, when the Senate is on the order of business of reports of standing committees

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SR 542 - This Senate resolution modifies Senate Rule 50 to provide that the chair of each committee shall be authorized to report no more than three bills when the Senate is on the order of business of reports of standing committees.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SR 542 - This Senate resolution modifies Senate Rule 50 to provide that the chair of each committee shall be authorized to report no more than three bills when the Senate is on the order of business of reports of standing committees.
• The President Pro Tem of the Senate may receive additional bills from the chair at the discretion of the President Pro Tem.
• This resolution is identical to SR 87 (2025) and SR 562 (2024).
• JIM ERTLE

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SR 542 - This Senate resolution modifies Senate Rule 50 to provide that the chair of each committee shall be authorized to report no more than three bills when the Senate is on the order of business of reports of standing committees. The President Pro Tem of the Senate may receive additional bills from the chair at the discretion of the President Pro Tem.

This resolution is identical to SR 87 (2025) and SR 562 (2024).
JIM ERTLE

Current Bill Text

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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 542
BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the One Hundred Third
General Assembly, Second Regular Session, that Senate Rule 50 be
amended to read as follows:
"Rule 50. Referrals of bills and appointments to
committee shall be made by the president pro tem; and no
bill shall be considered for final passage unless it has
been reported on by a committee and printed for the use of
the senators. The chair of each committee shall be
authorized to report, and the president pro tem shall
receive, no more than three bills deemed reportable by the
chair of the committee when the senate is on the order of
business of reports of standing committees. The president
pro tem may receive additional bills beyond the three that
the chair is authorized to report at his or her discretion.
A report of all bills recommended "do pass" by a committee
shall be submitted to the senate by the chairman and all
committee amendments accompanying the report shall be
printed in the Journal.
After a bill has been referred to a committee, one-
third of the senators elected has the power to relieve a
committee of further consideration of a bill and place it on
the calendar for consideration. In any case where a
committee has been relieved of further consideration of a
bill as herein provided, a majority of the senators present
but not less than one-third of the senators elected, may, at
any time before final passage thereof, again refer the bill
to the same or some other committee for consideration. No
bill or resolution shall be reported adversely by any
committee until the author of the bill or resolution has
been given an opportunity to appear and be heard before the
committee to which it is referred.

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One-third of the senators elected may relieve a
committee of an appointment and a motion to grant advice and
consent of the Senate to that appointment is then in order
upon a vote of the majority of the Senate.".