Nonconcurrence (definition) 99 (50)
Nonconcurrence, adverse and final disposition 46 (6)(c)
Nondebatable motions and questions 68
Notice of committee hearing (or cancellation),
on bulletin boards 25 (1)(c)
Notice of committee hearing, unintroduced legislation 25 (1)(c)
O
Offer (definition) 99 (50m)
Offering of resolutions 33 (1), 45
Officers:
president, president pro tempore, chief clerk, sergeant
at arms 1 to 6
substitute president, member serving as 2 (3)
Opinion of attorney general, date requested and received
entered in history file 30 (3)(c)
definition 99 (51)
Order and decorum:
audio, video recording 11 (7)
conduct of individuals in gallery 13m
disorderly conduct of member during session 13, 58
enforcement of, duties of sergeant at arms 6, 13
floor privilege 11, 12
lobby or senate floor, disturbance in, and clearing of 13
member may be removed by president 13
members not to leave senate, when 8 (2)
presiding officer to preserve 4 (6), 7 (1)
reading, consuming food, drink, or tobacco products
not permitted in chamber 8 (4)
recording proceedings 11 (7)
while ayes and noes are being called 8 (3)
Order of business:
committee of the whole 19
daily calendar 18 (1)
roll call of attendance, majority required for business 15
Organization; committee on senate:
absent member, temporary replacement 20 (7)
calendar, contents determined by 18 (1)
chairperson:
appoints members and chairpersons of
committees 20 (2), 20m
certificates under Joint Rule
7, examinations
for compliance with
98 (5)
citations on behalf of the senate, approval by 98
copying for senate, authorizes 95
employees of senate, general supervision of 88
extraordinary or special session, recommends
proposals for introduction 93 (1)
invite persons on the floor of the senate 11 (6)
membership 20 (1)
motion to withdraw from, matter goes to calendar 41 (1)(c)
rerefer to joint committee on finance 41 (1)(e)
room and seat assignments to members 97
recording proceedings, permission 11 (7)
senate officers subordinate to 1m (2), (3)
special order of business, may schedule 17 (2), 70 (3)
standing committees, created 20 (1)(c)
temporary replacement for absent member 20 (7)
time limits for debate, may schedule 76
Organization of senate, resolutions pertaining to privileged 69
P
Pair (definition) 99 (52)
Parliamentary inquiry (definition) 99 (53)
Parliamentary law and procedure, decisions of presiding
officer based on 56m (3)
Partial veto, see veto
Partial caucus, definition 99 (53m)
Passage, reference to committee not in order after 41 (2)
definition 99 (54)
failure is adverse and final disposition 46 (6)
Payroll, certification of employees 89
Penalties, senators absent without leave 13n
Personal privilege, right to speak on matter of 60
Petitions:
definition 99 (55)
presentation of, by member 46 (1)
read by title only 46 (4)
Pledge of allegiance 17 (1)
Points of order:
amendments 56m (2r)
appeal by a member 56m (1), (4)
appeal nondebatable, may not be laid on table 68
definition 99 (56)
entry of, in journal 56m (1), (5)
presiding officer decides subject to judgment
of senate 56m (1), (4)
proposals 56m (2m)
ruling on, by presiding officer within
required time 56m (2), 93 (4)
sources of parliamentary law to be consulted 56m (3)
Position, statement of, by member absent with leave 75
Postpone:
indefinitely, motion may not be repeated, except when 66
indefinitely, reference to committee after, not in order 41 (2)
motion not permitted twice on same day at same
stage of proposal 66
not in order in committee of the whole 19
not in order in extraordinary or special session 93 (5)
precedence of motion to 63 (1)(i), (m)
when committee recommends, question must be
first put 55
Prayer 17 (1)
