HOUSE RESOLUTION 7
(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegates Staton and Trump)
Authorizing the Committee on Rules to arrange a Special Calendar
and providing for making public the vote on certain questions
in connection with the preparation thereof.
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
That beginning on Friday, February 8, 2002 and for the
remainder of this regular session of the Legislature, the Committee
on Rules is hereby authorized to arrange a Special Calendar as
provided by House Rule 70. Daily after the eighth order of
business shall have been passed, the Special Calendar shall be
called, and until this calendar is disposed of each day, no item of
business on the regular House Calendar shall be considered or take
precedence over any item of business on the Special Calendar,
except by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting.
No bill or resolution shall be placed upon the Special
Calendar except by the Committee on Rules. In making up the
Calendar, the Committee on Rules may hear any Delegate or other
person in behalf of any resolution or bill he may desire placed
upon such calendar and the committee shall give due consideration
to the merits of bills and resolutions pending in the House of
Delegates, and take cognizance of measures which affect the public
interest generally; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the committee shall cause to be kept a
record of all roll call votes on all questions pertaining to
preparation of the Special Calendar and removing the same
therefrom. This record of votes shall show those voting in the
affirmative or those voting in the negative, whichever shall be the
smaller number, and those absent and not voting. These vote
records shall be prepared and following the adjournment of each
meeting made available to House members and to the public.