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House organizes, adopts rules and transacts special-session business in under a day
Summary
The House organized for the second special session July 16, 1997, adopted the prior session's rules, authorized committees to notify the Senate and governor, processed several bills including a small compensation bill and two tax-related measures, and adjourned the same day.
Leaders opened the second special session with procedural actions to shorten floor procedures. The House voted to continue the same leadership organization as the 1997 general session and to adopt the same House and joint rules for the special session. A motion to suspend the reading of bill titles on the calendars was approved to speed consideration.
The Senate transmitted several measures; the House appointed committees to wait upon the Senate and to inform the governor that the legislature was organized and later that it had completed its business. A small appropriations matter (Senate Bill 2,001) to compensate legislative members of a Blue Ribbon Commission on workers' compensation was reported and placed on the calendar. After completing the items on the governor's call and receiving reports from the committees, Representative Fox moved to adjourn; the House adjourned the second special session that same day.
The session was brief by design: leadership used procedural motions (suspension of reading and appointments of committees) to expedite consideration of the governor's call items and recorded multiple roll-call tallies for bills taken up that day.
