8.13 - Reconsideration
A motion to reconsider any vote on the adoption or rejection of
an amendment, or the adoption or rejection of a section of any bill
or joint resolution, may be made by any Member prior to the
advancement of such measure from General Order, which motion shall
be subject to debate. The motion to reconsider may be laid on the
table without affecting the question in reference to which the
motion is made thereby resulting in a final disposition of the
motion.
And because there is no provision for or against debate on the motion to reconsider more than three days prior to sine die adjournment, I would think the following generic debate rule applies:
9.4 - Debate
(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in these Rules,
when a debatable question is before the House, such debate shall be
limited to fifteen (15) minutes, equally divided between the
proponents and opponents of the question. Under no circumstances shall a Member debate twice on the same question, nor shall any
Member speak longer than ten (10) minutes on the same question.
ETA: If there are two things I like about Oklahoma's legislative process, its the debate limitations and single-subject limitation.
A motion to reconsider any vote on the adoption or rejection of
an amendment, or the adoption or rejection of a section of any bill
or joint resolution, may be made by any Member prior to the
advancement of such measure from General Order, which motion shall
be subject to debate. The motion to reconsider may be laid on the
table without affecting the question in reference to which the
motion is made thereby resulting in a final disposition of the
motion.
And because there is no provision for or against debate on the motion to reconsider more than three days prior to sine die adjournment, I would think the following generic debate rule applies:
9.4 - Debate
(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in these Rules,
when a debatable question is before the House, such debate shall be
limited to fifteen (15) minutes, equally divided between the
proponents and opponents of the question. Under no circumstances shall a Member debate twice on the same question, nor shall any
Member speak longer than ten (10) minutes on the same question.
ETA: If there are two things I like about Oklahoma's legislative process, its the debate limitations and single-subject limitation.
Sounds like its on life support, prognosis is not good.
By serving notice to reconsider voting it gave exclusive control to the bill author, if it had not been locked up members wishing to kill it could have voted to change it again and send it back through both sides of the house which is time consuming and may very well have killed it because it would take mor etime than what is available in the reaminder of the session. Plus side no one gets to mess with it. Down side it's a time consumer, but not as big if it was hijacked and sent back through the carousel.
The current status referred for enrollment means a final version of the bill is being entered into the books and printed and will be delivered to the governnors desk soon. This is not dead just making it's way through the machine of bueracracy.
Once at the governers desk he has 5 legislative business days, to sign, veto or do nothing. Sign or do nothing and this becomes law on November 1st 2010. Veto this bill and it has to go back to the house for an over ride vote.
If this hits his desk tomorrow he has until 5/19 to take action on it. If he vetoes on the 19th there may not be enough time remaining in the legislative session to over ride the veto, in which case it would be dead.
Fortunately this is tied to legislation privatizing personally identifiable information reltaed to CCW permit holders. A recent gambit to get the names of CCW permit holders in oklahoma has been to file a freedom of information act request, this closes that avenue and I hope it goes through.
Just relax it ain't over.
What we don't need is impolite or nasty letters to the governor. Instead of acting and sounding like the ignorant unwashed hillbillies we are portrayed as being by the media and the masses we need to be polite and informative in our letters.
It has now been sent to the governor
where are you getting this info? I would like to follow it.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/WebBillStatus/main.html
Enter HB3354 and press retrieve.
5/11/2010#@sH Enrolled, signed, to Senate
5/11/2010#@sS Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
5/11/2010#@sH Sent to Governor
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