Contents

• Contents
• Rules of Order
  • Order of Business
  • Definition and Form of Motions, Bills, Resolutions, and Orders
  • Authors and Sponsors
  • Assignment of the Floor
  • Motion or Debate, Not Both
  • Yielding the Floor
  • Acceptance of Modifications to a Motion
  • Division of a Resolution or Order
  • Division of a Bill
  • Special Fee Requests
  • Methods of Voting
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Appeal from the Decision of the Chair
  • Amendments
  • Previous Question
  • Motion to Discharge from Committee
  • Motion to Reconsider
  • Suspension of the Rules of Order
• Standing Rules
  • Regular Senate Meetings
  • Meetings of Committees of the Senate
  • Corrections to Minutes, Bills, and Resolutions
  • Routing of Bills and Resolutions
  • Absences
  • Rosters
  • Agenda Packets
  • Suspension of the Standing Rules
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