Rule 27. During the last ten days of the session, no member, except the author of the bill, shall be permitted to speak on the final passage for a longer period of time than five minutes; provided, however, that any member may waive his time in favor of any other member, and during said last ten days of the session no member shall be allowed to speak upon a motion or resolution for a longer time than three minutes.

Rule 28. Any member may call for a division of the question, when the same shall admit of it.

Rule 29. In forming a committee of the whole, the President shall leave the chair and may appoint any member as chairman to preside.

Rule 30. No member shall be permitted to vote upon any question unless he was within the bar at the time the question was stated unless the Senate shall unanimously consent thereto.

Rule 31. When any petition, memorial, or other remonstrance or proposition is presented to the Senate, the member presenting the same shall give a concise statement of the purport thereof, and it shall be disposed of according to its character, without reading, unless the reading thereof is required by a member.

Rule 32. No member shall absent himself from the service of the Senate without leave first obtained from the President, and any member absent without leave as herein provided may be punished by a fine in such sum as may be ordered by the Senate.

Rule 33. When the Senate has perfected permanent organization, the Chief Clerk shall notify the House of that fact by a written message.

Rule 34. Any member hay have a protest entered in the journal explaining his vote upon any question or protesting against any proposition before the Senate, provided the language and tenor of such protest would have been admissable in the discussion of the subject.

Rule 35. Two members may demand a call of the Senate, whereupon the clerk shall call the roll, and all members who are absent, without leave, as in these rules provided for, shall be brought to the bar of the Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, and while the Senate is under call of the Senate, no business shall be transacted and the door of the Senate shall be locked and no person permitted to pass through the same, excepting the Sergeant-at-Arms and members of the Senate to enter the Senate chamber.

GENERAL RULES

Rule 36. The following shall be the order or rule of doing business in the Senate:

Petitions, memorials, remonstrances and resolutions.
Reports of standing committees in their regular order.

Reports from select committees.

Propositions and motions.

Introduction and reading of bills.

Second reading of bills, etc.

Engrossed bills read a third time.

Bills, reports and other business lying on the table.

First reading of House Bills.

Second reading of House bills.

Third reading of House Bills.
Other business of the House.
Other business of the Senate.

Orders of the day.

Rule 37. The President shall not, except by unanimous consent, return to the first order of business until the entire order of business has been called over, but if an adjournment occurs before the entire order of business has been called over and completed, he shall, upon taking up after adjournment, continue from the order of business under which the Senate is working at such adjournment.

Rule 38. No business of any character shall be transacted during the time when the Senate is under a call of the Senate.

Rule 39. A motion to adjourn and a motion to lay on the table shall always be in order, excepting when a member is speaking, when the Senate is under a call of the Senate or when either of such motions has just been put and decided in the negative, at which time neither can be repeated until after the transaction of some other business. These motions shall be decided without debate.

Rule 40. When a question is before the Senate, no motion shall be received except the following: To adjourn, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, to amend, or to postpone indefinitely; which said several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are here arranged.

Rule 41. The question shall be put in this form: "As many as are of the opinion (as the case may be) say aye; of the contrary opinion, say no." In cases where the President is in doubt, he may call a division, or any member may call for a division. Upon the call of two Senators, a roll call on any question may be had.

Rule 42. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the President, or if in writing, it shall be read by the Reading Clerk, before it is debated.

Rule 43. After a motion is stated by the President, or read aloud by the clerk, it shall be deemed to be in the possession of the Senate, but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment by and with the consent of the Senate.

Rule 44. When a bill, motion or resolution has been indefinitely postponed, it shall be considered definitely terminated, and the vote whereby the same was indefinitely postponed may not be reconsidered, and the Senate shall not during the same session again consider any bill, motion or resolution involving the same question contained in any bill, motion, proposition or resolution theretofore indefinitely postponed.

Rule 45. Each bill shall be referred by the President to the committee to which it should be referred, according to the nature of such bill, and no member shall have the right to have a bill referred to a committee to which it does not properly belong; provided, that any bill appropriating money or which will cause the expenditure of money by the state shall, before it is placed upon the third reading, be considered by the Ways and Means Committee, and if it refers to another subject it may first be considered by the proper committee having charge of matter pertaining to such other subject.

Rule 46. No committee shall sit during the time the Senate is in session, without leave of the President of the Senate.

Rule 47. Committee Amendments. When amendments to a bill are made by a committee, the clerk of such committee shall prepare such proposed amendments in triplicate to be delivered to the Chief Clerk.

Rule 48. Committees; When to Report. Each committee shall act upon the bills in its possession as soon as is practicable and when acted upon shall report the same back to the Senate forthwith; provided, that the Senate may at any time order a bill reported back from any committee upon a majority vote.

Rule 49. Standing Committees; Quorum of. Unless otherwise ordered by a committee, a majority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business before such committee.

Rule 50. The members of the Senate from the County of Multnomah and any joint district of which the County of Multnomah is a part shall constitute a standing committee, to be known as the Multnomah delegation, but such committee shall choose its own chairman.

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 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 referred 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 a 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, exmembers 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.