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The Committee on the Legislative Branch will
remember that we spent some time with this section in com-
mittee trying to get away from the use of language which
would indicate that the bill on final passage would have
to be in a single complete printed or mimeographed form,
because we wanted to allow the second House to be able to
amend a bill after it had come over from the originating
House, and to attach the amendments.
It was felt this morning in the conference that
there was still some danger of this interpretation, although
we had eliminated the word "printed", which we felt argued
very much against the position we wished to take.
Consequently, I have prepared the language which
you have before you in Amendment No. 17, which would now
make the sentence in Section 3.16 read, except during the
first four days of special session, no vote on final passag?
of a bill shall be taken until the bill and all amendments
shall be in writing.
I think this is clearer to the interpretation
and the desired result which we sought to achieve in the
committee. Therefore, I would urge the adoption of the