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As Adopted by the House
136th
General Assembly
Regular
Session
H. R. No. 25
2025-2026
Representative
Manning
A
R E S O L U T I O N
To
amend Rules 13, 22, 24, 25, 96, and 115 of the House of
Representatives of the 136th General Assembly.
BE
IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
That
Rules 13, 22, 24, 25, 96, and 115 of the House of Representatives for
the 136th General Assembly be amended to read as follows:
Rule
13. (Appointment of committees and boards.) The Speaker shall name
all committees and subcommittees, and shall appoint all members and
chairs thereto. The Speaker shall appoint members to a standing
committee so that
its
membership
is proportional to the partisan composition of the House. The chair
and the vice-chair of the Finance Committee and the Rules and
Reference Committee shall not be included in making this calculation.
The Minority Leader, in a manner to be determined by the minority
caucus, may recommend for the Speaker's consideration, minority party
members for each committee.
Rule
22. (Supervision of employees; maintenance of parking facilities.)
(a) Subject to the Speaker's authority under Rule 14, and except for
employees whose direction is delegated to the Clerk under Rule 26,
responsibility for seeing that employees of the House satisfactorily
perform their respective duties is delegated to the Chief
Administrative Officer and other designated staff as provided by
House
resolution
resolutions
adopted
during the 136th General Assembly.
(b)
The maintenance and condition of parking facilities under the control
of the House shall be under the direction and control of the Chief
Administrative Officer, subject to the approval of the Speaker.
(c)
The Speaker shall not eliminate parking privileges or the office of a
member without the member's consent
and
.
(d)
The Speaker
may
not remove an employee assigned to a member without prior
notification to the member, unless extenuating circumstances
otherwise require.
Rule
24. (Legislative duties and responsibilities of the Clerk.) (a) The
Clerk is custodian of the bills, amendments, resolutions, and other
legislative documents that are in possession of the House. The Clerk
shall not permit a bill, amendment, resolution, or other legislative
document to be removed from the Clerk's custody except in the course
of the regular business of the House and then only upon receiving a
receipt for the document that shows when and to whom the document was
released. The Clerk shall prescribe the form of the receipt. A bill,
amendment, resolution, or other legislative document in the Clerk's
custody is available for public inspection.
(b)
When a bill or resolution is filed for introduction, the Clerk shall
examine the bill or resolution to determine whether on its face it
appears to meet the constitutional and procedural requirements for
introduction, and shall call any defects to the attention of the
author. The Clerk may correct the list of cosponsors if the Clerk
receives notice of and verifies a technical error. In fulfilling this
duty, the Clerk is not presumed to guarantee the bill meets the
constitutional or procedural requirements for introduction.
(c)
The Clerk shall number bills and resolutions in the order of their
filing, and shall keep a complete and accurate record of bills and
resolutions that includes, for each bill or resolution, its number;
its author; a brief description of its subject; the section or
sections of law it seeks to amend, enact, or repeal, if any; notation
of its reference to and report by a committee; and notation of its
passage or adoption or rejection by the House. The record is open to
public inspection.
(d)
The Clerk shall provide to the chair of a committee to which a bill
or resolution is referred, the bill or resolution together with all
official documents and other attachments pertaining thereto
.
(e)
The Clerk shall prepare and publish a Calendar that gives public
notice of bills and resolutions that have been arranged on the
Calendar for third consideration or adoption, bills and resolutions
that have been reported by committees, and other matters descriptive
of the current and future business of the House.
(f)
The Clerk shall keep a complete and accurate Journal of the
proceedings of the House, beginning it on the first day of the first
regular session and ending it on the last day of the second regular
session. The Clerk shall maintain a separate Journal for any special
session, beginning it on the first day and ending it on the last day
of the special session. The pages of the Journal shall be numbered
serially. All amendments that are taken up, unless withdrawn or ruled
out of order, shall be spread upon the Journal. For all amendments
that are offered, the Journal shall include the number assigned to
the amendment by the Legislative Service Commission.
(g)
The Clerk shall superintend the engrossing, enrolling, and
presentation of bills and joint resolutions and the preparation and
publication of other legislative documents.
(h)
The Clerk shall attest all writs and subpoenas issued by order of the
House, the Journal, and the passage of bills and the adoption of
resolutions. These attestation duties are ministerial.
Rule
25. (May call the House to order.) If the Speaker, Speaker Pro
Tempore, Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore, Majority Floor Leader, and
Assistant Majority Floor Leader are absent, at the hour to which the
House shall have adjourned or taken recess, except in the case
mentioned in Rule 12, the Clerk may call the House to order, and, if
called to order, the House shall proceed to choose some member to act
as presiding officer until either the Speaker, Speaker Pro Tempore,
Assistant Speaker Pro Tempore, Majority Floor Leader, or the
Assistant Majority Floor Leader shall be present.
The House may not convene unless a member of the majority party is
present.
Rule
96. (Amendments to titles.) (a) Amendments to the title of a House or
Senate bill may be offered in committee or on third consideration and
shall be decided without debate, provided that upon third
consideration a motion to amend the title may be made by a sponsor;
but no amendments shall change the subject dealt with in the original
title. Amendments to the title of a House or Senate bill offered on
third consideration may be made by electronic means when permitted by
the Speaker or presiding officer. Prior to passage of a bill, a
former Representative who no longer is a member of the General
Assembly may present a writing to the Clerk requesting deletion of
the former Representative's name from the title of the bill as
sponsor or co-sponsor. The Speaker shall present the request to the
House, and the Clerk shall spread the request upon the pages of the
Journal. When the House is agreed, the Clerk shall make out the title
accordingly, and certify to the passage of the bill upon its carrier.
(b)
Immediately after the House has voted to concur in Senate amendments
to a bill or resolution, and immediately after the House has voted to
accept a conference committee report, a Representative may remove the
Representative's name from the bill or resolution by rising and
stating this desire to the Speaker or presiding officer. The Clerk
shall thereupon remove the Representative's name from the bill or
resolution. Prior to the vote on concurrence in Senate amendments to
a bill or resolution, and prior to the vote on a conference committee
report, a former Representative who no longer is a member of the
General Assembly may present a writing to the Clerk requesting
deletion of the former Representative's name from the title of the
bill
or
resolution
as
sponsor or co-sponsor. The Speaker shall present the request to the
House, and the Clerk shall spread the request upon the pages of the
Journal. When the House is agreed, the Clerk shall make out the title
of the bill or resolution accordingly.
(c)
Amendments to the title of a resolution, other than one having a
congratulatory, commendatory, or other similar purpose, may be
offered on the floor and may be made by electronic means when
permitted by the Speaker or presiding officer. No amendment to the
title of a resolution shall change the subject dealt with in the
original title.
Rule
115. (Parliamentary guide.) Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
(2020), as amplified or clarified in Hughes' American Parliamentary
Guide, 1931-1932, Revised New Edition, shall govern in all cases not
provided for in the foregoing rules, or the Joint Rules of the Senate
and House of Representatives
,
if any
.