RULES AND ORDERS

OF THE

SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

ADOPTED FEBRUARY 4, 1896.

RULES OF THE SENATE.

Order of Business.

1. President to take the chair; journal to be read. Order of business.

Of the President.

2. (1) To decide questions of order; name committees. (2) To assign doorkeepers to their respective duties and stations.

(3) To certify passage of all bills.

Of the Temporary President.

3. In the absence of the Lieutenant-Governor, temporary President to act.

Of the Clerk.

4. (1) To have journals printed and placed on file. (2) To furnish, daily, printed list of general orders; to see that all bills are acted upon in order in which reported; calendar.

(3) To present bills originating in Senate to Gov. ernor, and to enter on journals.

(4) To designate reporters.

Of the Sergeant-at-Arms.

5. To be in attendance on the Senate to preserve order.

Of the Rights and Duties of Senators.

6. (1) Relative to presentation of petitions, reports, resolutions, etc.

(2) To preserve order while journals or public papers
are being read.

(3) Debate; Senators to address the President, and
not to proceed until recognized; limitation;
President to decide who is entitled to floor.
(4) Within bar of Senate when question is stated,
to vote, unless, etc.

(5) Wishing to be excused from voting, may make
brief statement.

(6) and (7) Absentees to be sent for.

Committees and their Duties.

7. Standing committees to consist of three, unless otherwise ordered; list of committees.

8. On public printing, to examine and report on all matters relating to printing.

9. On printed and engrossed bills, to examine all bills, resolutions, etc., and report as correctly printed or engrossed before third reading.

10. On revision, duties of.

11. Reports of committees on bills; proceedings when not considered at time of making.

Of General Orders and Special Orders.

12. What to constitute the general orders; business of; how taken up.

13. Special orders.

Of the Committee of the Whole.

14. Rules to be observed in; may strike out enacting clause in bills, and if report is agreed to by Senate, bill to be deemed rejected.

15. Bills, committed to, to be read through by sections; amendments not offered in, not in order except by unanimous consent.

16. Motion to rise and report progress always in order.

17. How introduced.

Of Bills.

18. Proceedings when reported by committee of the whole, when deemed lost; final question to be taken immediately after third reading.

19. To receive three readings; not to be amended or committed until twice read; not to be read a third time out of its order; resolutions proposing amendments to Constitution to be treated as bills, to be acted on in committee of the whole.

20. Or resolution amending Constitution, after ordered to a third reading, may not be amended, except,

etc.

21. Two-thirds bills.

22. Question on final passage to be taken by ayes and

nays.

23. To be printed in the order as reported by committees, unless, etc.

24. When final vote on, may be reconsidered; to be read by sections.

25. When may be laid on the table.

Of Motions and their Precedence.

26. When question is before Senate, no motion to be received, except, etc.; motion to adjourn or lay on the table to be decided without debate.

27. When to be reduced to writing.

28. When questions to be divided.

29. Certain to preclude debate of main question. 30. Filling of blanks; question, how taken.

31. Reconsideration.

32. Concurrent resolutions.

Of Closing Debate.

33. Closing debate.

34. Of a quorum.

Of Question of Order.

35. Priority of business.

36. When reading of paper is called for and objected to, to be decided without debate.

37. Senator called to order; to take his seat; when may proceed; words objected to to be taken down in writing.

38. Divisions; when names to be entered alphabetically on minutes; Senators to vote unless excused.

Of Executive Session.

39. When President shall direct doors to be closed, etc.; secrecy to be observed.

40. Proceedings in, to be kept in separate journal. 41. Senate may go into, when deemed necessary; nominations in, how referred; when consent to appointment may be transmitted.

Miscellaneous Provisions.

42. Who may take books from Senate chamber; duty of librarian.

43. Superintendent of documents to place documents and bills on files; postmaster to see that mails are punctually delivered.

44. Senate library, post-office and document room to be open..

45. Alteration, suspending or rescinding of rules. 46. Claims before, reported adversely upon, papers relative to, to remain on files of Senate, unless, etc. 47. Resolutions for expenditure of moneys must be decided by a majority vote.

48. Call of the Senate.

49. Admissions to floor of Senate chamber.