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(1) Amendments to the amendment are voted on before the substitute<br />

is taken up. Only one amendment to the amendment is in order at a time.<br />

(2) Amendments to the substitute are next voted on.<br />

(3) The substitute then is voted on. The adoption <strong>of</strong> a substitute<br />

amendment in lieu <strong>of</strong> an original amendment shall be treated and considered as<br />

an amendment to the bill itself.<br />

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(c) The adoption <strong>of</strong> an amendment to a section shall not preclude<br />

further amendment <strong>of</strong> that section. If a bill is being considered section by<br />

section or item by item, only amendments to the section or item under<br />

consideration shall be in order.<br />

(d) For the purpose <strong>of</strong> this rule, an amendment shall be deemed<br />

pending only after its proposer has been recognized by the Speaker and has<br />

moved its adoption.<br />

(e) Reviser's bills may be amended only by making deletions.<br />

12.4—Second and Third Reading; Vote Required on Third Reading<br />

(a) A motion to amend is in order during the second or third reading <strong>of</strong><br />

any bill.<br />

(b) Amendments proposed on third reading shall require a two-thirds<br />

vote for adoption, except that technical amendments introduced in the name <strong>of</strong><br />

the Rules & Calendar Committee shall require a majority vote for adoption.<br />

Amendments on third reading, other than technical amendments introduced in<br />

the name <strong>of</strong> the Rules & Calendar Committee, must be approved for filing not<br />

later than the earlier <strong>of</strong> the following deadlines:<br />

(1) Nine a.m. on the day session is scheduled to convene on the day the<br />

bill is reached on third reading; or<br />

(2) One hour before session is scheduled to convene on the day the bill<br />

is reached on third reading.<br />

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