Version A final setup - Florida House of Representatives

Motions: Precedence and Procedure
Motion Interrupt
Speaker
Amend Debate Vote Required
1
To adjourn at a time
certain.
No Yes No Majority
Purpose: To set time for meeting to close.
2
To adjourn.
(Committee "To rise.")
No No No Majority
Purpose: To close meeting immediately. (Can substitute (1) above.)
3
To recess to a time
certain.
No Yes
No but see
R.11.5
Majority
Purpose: To interrupt meeting, to reconvene at set time.
4
To lay on the table. No No
No but see
R.11.6
Majority
Purpose: To remove item from consideration indefinitely.
If question to
5
To reconsider. No No
be
reconsidered
is debatable
Majority
6
Purpose: Bring a decided question back for review.
For the previous
No No No Majority
question.
Purpose: Close debate on the question (terminates consideration of amendments
to that question).
7
To limit (or extend)
debate.
No Yes
No but see
R.11.9
Majority
Purpose: To regulate time for debate.
8
To temporarily
postpone.
No No No Majority
Purpose: To postpone to another time (subject to return at a convenient time).
9
To postpone to a time
or day certain.
No Yes
Only
whether to
postpone
Majority
Purpose: To postpone a main motion (only) to a particular time.
10
To refer to or to
recommit to committee
or subcommittee.
No Yes
Yes
(propriety of
reference)
Majority
Purpose: To send to committee or subcommittee for further study.
11
To amend. No
Yes
(degrees
limited)
Yes
Majority
2/3 on 3rd Reading
Purpose: To alter or modify the wording of a question.
12
To amend by removing
the enacting or
resolving clause.
Purpose: To reject the bill.
No No Yes
Majority
2/3 on 3rd Reading
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