Rules of the Senate

Rule 51. The first reading of the bill shall be for information, and if objection is made to it, the question shall be "Shall the bill be rejected?" If no objection is made or if the question to reject be lost, the bill shall go to its second reading without a question.

Rule 52. All bills, memorials and joint resolutions, and amendments thereto, shall, as soon as introduced, unless objected to and rejected, be sent to the State Printer and printed without a direct vote of the Senate, unless otherwise ordered. There shall be printed for the use of both houses four hundred and eighty copies of each bill, memorial and joint resolution, unless the Senate shall order a greater or lesser number.

Rule 53. Upon the second reading of the bill the President shall state: "This is the second reading of the bill; it is now ready to commit, to amend, or to engross and order to a third reading."

Rule 54. A bill, after commitment and report thereof, may be recommitted at any time before its passage. When a bill is reported back from the committee to which it has been been referred, with amendments, the Chief Clerk shall thereupon transmit the bill to the chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills. If there have been amendments to such bill, it shall be the duty of the Committee on Engrossed Bills to recopy said bill and include therein the amendments as adopted. All bills shall take their place upon the calendar for third reading in the order in which they are received by the Chief Clerk from the Committee on Engrossed Bills. A bill upon the calendar for third reading shall lose its place thereon if it is rereferred or when it is not disposed of in its regular order on the third reading of bills, except when said bill has been made a special order for a time certain.

Rule 55. When any motion is made for the amendment of any resolution, the mover's name shall be inserted in the journal.

Rule 56. A bill shall not be amended upon the floor of the Senate, but if the Senate or a majority thereof desire a change in any bill, it may be referred to any committee with instructions to make the desired amendment.

Rule 57. The rules of the proceedings of the Senate shall be observed in the committee of the whole so far as they may be applicable.

Rule 58. The standing committees shall make their reports in the order in which they are enumerated in Rule 7. If a bill is reported back with a unanimous favorable report without amendment, the report shall be filed and the bill placed upon the calendar for third reading; no motion shall be made to adopt such report. If a unanimous report is made by a committee to the effect that bill do not pass, the effect of such report and the adoption thereof shall be the indefinite postponement of such bill. If a committee returns a majority and a minority report it shall be in order to move the adoption of the report of the majority and it shall then be in order to move that the minority report be substituted for the majority report.

Rule 59. No bill shall pass the Senate until a third reading, nor shall any bill be read more than once in any one day, except upon the suspension of the rules had after a roll call, and to suspend this rule it shall be necessary that two-thirds of the Senators voting shall vote in the affirmative.

Rule 60. No rule of the Senate shall be suspended, abrogated or rescinded except after a roll call and the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Senate.

Rule 61. No standing rule of the Senate shall be revised or amended except after the same has been proposed in writing and read at a regular session of the Senate and allowed to lay upon the table for at least one day.

Rule 62. No person, except the officers, the members and employes of the Senate, the House of Representatives, ex-members of the Legislature, the Governor, Secretary of State, the State Treasurer, Judges of the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts, State Printer, Attorney-General, members of Congress and Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be admitted within the bar of the Senate during the sitting of the same, unless otherwise ordered by vote of the Senate.

Rule 63. The hours of meeting of the Senate shall be ten o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock in the afternoon, unless otherwise ordered.

Rule 64. The Mailing Clerk shall mail to such persons as may apply therefor, and to such persons as any member of the Senate may direct, printed copies of any bill, resolution or calendar and the postage therefor shall be furnished to him by the Secretary of State upon the written order of the President of the Senate.

Rule 65. Amendments and Substitutes Must Be Germane. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that

under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment or substitute.

Rule 66. Motion of Reconsideration. On the next day in which the Senate is in session succeeding that on which a final vote on any bill, concurrent or joint resolution or motion has been taken, said vote may be reconsidered on the motion of any Senator voting with the prevailing side, but such reconsideration may not be had on the day on which such final vote was taken. Said motion for reconsideration shall have precedence over every other motion and it shall require a majority of those present and voting to carry a motion to reconsider. There shall be but one reconsideration, even though the action of the Senate after reconsideration is the opposite of the action of the Senate before reconsideration.

Rule 67. Reconsideration of Bills Already Sent to An Assembly. When a bill, amendment, resolution, order or other matter up for a vote has been taken which has gone out of the possession of the Senate and has been sent to the House of Representatives or the Governor, a motion to reconsider shall be preceded by a motion to request the House of Representatives or the Governor to return the same, which last mentioned motion shall be acted upon immediately and without debate.

Rule 68. Chief Clerk Not to Transmit Bill After Notice of Reconsideration. After a Senator gives notice that he intends to move a reconsideration, the Chief Clerk shall not thereafter transmit the bill, resolution or other matter upon which the vote is taken concerning which the reconsideration is proposed, until the reconsideration has been disposed of or the time for moving the same has expired.

Rule 69. Motion to Reconsider May Be Debated. A motion to reconsider may be debated together with the main question, provided the subject matter is debatable.

Rule 70. Amendment to Original Question. An amendment may be laid on the table without prejudice to a bill, resolution or memorial. When an amendment proposed to any pending measure shall be laid on the table, it shall not carry with it or prejudice such measure.

Rule 71. Special Orders. Any matter before the Senate may, upon a vote of a majority of the Senators present, be made a special order and when the time fixed for its consideration arrives the presiding officer shall lay it before the Senate.

Rule 72. Form of Previous Question. The previous question shall be put in the following form: "Shall the main question now be put?" It shall only be admitted when demanded

by a majority of the Senators present and its effect shall be to put an end to all debate, except that the author of the bill or other matter before the Senate shall have the right to close, and the subject under discussion shall thereupon be immediately put to a vote. On motion for the previous question, prior to a vote of the Senate being taken, a call of the Senate shall be in order.

Rule 73. Executive Session. On a motion made, seconded and carried to go into executive session during the discussion of any business which may, in the opinion of the Senate, require such session, the President shall require all persons, except Senators, the President of the Senate, the four desk clerks, the Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper to withdraw, and during the discussion of such proposition or matter the doors shall remain closed; every member and officer of the Senate shall keep secret all matters, proceedings and things occurring at any executive session whereof secrecy shall be compelled by order of the President.

Rule 74. All bills, memorials, joint and concurrent resolutions shall be presented in duplicate, one copy of which shall be retained and marked by the Chief Clerk as the original, and the other shall be used as copy for the printer.

Rule 75. In all cases not provided for in these rules the Senate shall be governed by the rules and practices as laid down in Cushing's Law Practice of Legislatives Assemblies.

Rule 76. Any bill which amends an existing law of the State of Oregon shall have the new matter to be inserted into the act printed in italics, the old portion of the statute to be in ordinary print, and the portions to be stricken out to be marked across with a line so as to be legible to the members; provided, that in the printed bill only, such deleted matter may be bracketed, and on the third reading of such bills matter so marked shall not be read as part of the bills unless specially requested.