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Chair completely misunderstood your earlier intent, this
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amendment would defeat a different intent that you have.
Is it your intent that the exception beginning
in line 38 applies only to the two immediately orecedinq
phrases, or does it now appiv all the way back to the
beginning of the sentence, and include the phrase begin-
ning on line 31 and continuing 32, "no vote on final passace",
in other words, may a vote on final passage he taken
without the written bill and amendments being before
the House, if three-fifths of the members permit?
I took it from what you said earlier that you
did not intend that result, but it may be that gramatically
that would be the construction of the sentence.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman, we did not
intend to do away with that particular requirement.
THE CHAIRMAN: Could we leave that to the
Committee on Style but have it stated quite clearly,
Delegate Penniman, that this sentence, as reconstructed,
is not intended to mean that by three-fifths vote of the
Holise a vote on final passage of the bill could bo
taken before the bill and all amendments thereto were