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House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee adopts internal rules
Summary
The House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee voted to adopt its proposed internal rules, formalizing procedures on quorum, subcommittees, roll-call votes and amendment filing.
The House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee voted to adopt its proposed internal rules after a short summary of provisions and brief member discussion.
The adopted rules formalize existing practice on quorum and decorum, require two-thirds of appointed members to approve permanent changes, allow the chair broad authority to appoint and assign legislation to subcommittees, and require roll-call votes when adopting a favorable report. "This is something we had already done in precedent in prior session, and we were just placing in the rule," said…
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