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Committee advances rule change limiting former legislators on the floor during business
Summary
The House State Affairs Committee moved to introduce RS 32,024, a rule change that would prevent former state legislators from occupying the House floor while the body is transacting business unless they have speaker approval; staff would remain allowed on the floor.
Representative Mickelson told the House State Affairs Committee that he introduced RS 32,024 to tighten House Rule 70 so former legislators cannot be on the House floor while the House is transacting business unless they have approval from the speaker.
The change “would make it so that when we're actually in the process of transacting business that they cannot be on the floor and if they are that they have received, approval from the speaker,” Mickelson said. He cited instances last session when former members “were coming on the…
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