DELEGATE BOYER: Mr. President,
the General Provisions Committee will
meet fifteen minutes after this session in
order to hear from the individual delegates
on the proposals that have been referred
to our Committee since our last invitation.
May 1 specifically call to your attention
that the proposals will be Nos. 358, 372,
389, 390, 391, 398, 408, 412, 415, and No.
25.
1 assume you individual delegates know
your own bills so I will not refer to them
by name. May 1 caution that this will prob-
ably be the last opportunity the General
Provisions Committee will have in order
to hear you as proponents so we strenuously
urge and invite you to come and be heard.
Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. President,
the Committee on State Finance and Taxa-
tion will not meet until 11 A.M. tomorrow
morning to enable some of us to try to
finalize some of the language of some por-
tions of our proposals.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any fur-
ther announcements by committee chair-
men? Are there other announcements?
One comment I would like to make. As
indicated by the announcements of the com-
mittee chairmen, most of the committees
either have concluded their deliberations on
their principal recommendations or will do
so today or tomorrow. Every effort is being
made to expedite the completion of the rec-
ommendations of these committees and the
supporting memoranda. So that I am very
hopeful that on Monday a number of these
will be filed.
May I urge all delegates who, because of
this situation, have a few hours of freedom
between now and Monday morning, to
please devote that time to work on the mi-
nority reports. The reports or the support-
ing memoranda of the majority of the com-
mittee will not be delayed for completion of
the minority reports. You can use the time
now when the committee staff is working on
the supporting memorandum for the com-
mittee recommendation to work on your
committee reports. The staff of the Con-
vention will render whatever assistance it
can to the minority members in this con-
nection. Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I would like
to address a question to the Chair, not only
for my benefit, but for the benefit of other
members of the Convention. |
We had filed a recommendation dealing
with the subject matter of the state auditor.
Thereafter another committee through its
chairman communicated with us and then
we were able to thrash out differences be-
tween their draft and ours in such a way
that at least we avoid a great deal of word
surgery on the floor. We thereupon sent the
amendment over to the Convention head-
quarters here. What I would like to know
is, under this procedure, when will the
amendment be forwarded to the member-
ship? Will there be a wait of two days as
is the usual case? Just what will the pro-
cedure be so that we will all know how to
handle it.
THE PRESIDENT: The procedure will
be this. The recommendation of the Com-
mittee which is SF-I will probably be on
the agenda for tomorrow. The amendment
which has been prepared under the practice
I have announced will not be distributed to
the delegates until it is offered by the pro-
ponent. If the proponent desires to have
the amendment distributed now or before-
hand, he has only to request it and we will
do so. The withholding of the amendment
until the delegate offers it is at his option.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. President,
I would like to request that it be dis-
tributed. It actually is in place of SF-I and
will be subject to amendment thereafter on
the floor.
THE PRESIDENT: All right. In view
of that request, I will request the Chief
Page to see that a copy of the amendment,
which is very short, is distributed this
afternoon to the desks of every delegate
in his committee room and an additional
copy placed on the desk of each delegate on
the floor so that you have it in one of the
two places. Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Presi-
dent, a parliamentary inquiry. If the amend-
ment is offered to the report, under the
rules, would this then allow us to amend
only once? Or if the amendment to the orig-
inal report is offered by the committee,
would then only one other amendment to
that be in order under the rule of tertiary
amendments? Or will we be able to amend
the amendment to the amendment?
THE PRESIDENT: I would not think
that normally you would be limited to one
but this is a one-sentence report and a one-
sentence amendment. I am not sure.
I think in this particular instance we
would request the sponsor of the amend-
ment to offer it as a substitute for the |
