0001| HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003| 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| ROBERT A. PERLS
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0011| A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
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0012| AMENDING LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE 3-1 TO PROVIDE THAT CONFERENCE
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0013| COMMITTEES BE SUBJECT TO THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
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0015| WHEREAS, Legislative Joint Rule 8-1 provides that joint
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0016| rules may be adopted, amended or repealed by concurrent
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0017| resolution approved by two-thirds of the membership of each
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0018| house;
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0019| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF
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0020| REPRESENTATIVES, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, that Joint Rule
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0021| 3-1 be amended to read:
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0022| "CONFERENCE COMMITTEES (3-1)
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0023| A. If one house refuses to concur in the
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0024| amendments made to its bill by the other house, the chief
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0025| clerk shall notify the house making the amendments of that
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0001| refusal to concur and ask that it recede from its
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0002| amendments. If the amending house refuses to recede from
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0003| its amendments, a conference committee, consisting of three
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0004| members from each house, shall be appointed by the
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0005| president pro tempore of the senate and the speaker of the
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0006| house.
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0007| B. The conference committee shall meet at a time
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0008| to be mutually agreed upon by the committee members, and
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0009| the time and place of the meeting shall be printed on the
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0010| daily schedule of house and senate committee hearings or
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0011| posted in the capitol in such a way as to give, under the
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0012| circumstances, reasonably adequate notice of the meeting to
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0013| the public.
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0014| C. When agreement on the amendments in dispute has
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0015| been reached, the members shall report to their respective
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0016| houses, or, if agreement has not been reached, they shall
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0017| report that fact to their respective houses. [No new item
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0018| shall be presented as an amendment for inclusion in the
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0019| conference committee report unless the item has been the
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0020| subject of a legislative committee hearing during the
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0021| session.] Voting in the conference committee shall be by
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0022| the respective houses, and a majority of the membership
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0023| from each house is required for adoption of a
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0024| recommendation. The report of the conference committee
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0025| shall not be subject to amendment in either house. The
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0001| report of the conference committee shall always be in order
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0002| except during a roll call or when a question of order or a
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0003| motion to adjourn is pending. The report of the conference
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0004| committee shall not be voted on in either house until at
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0005| least twenty-four hours after the time the conference
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0006| committee report has been reported to the respective house,
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0007| except for conference committee reports that are received
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0008| in the last twenty-four hours of a session, in which case
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0009| at least one legislative day must lapse between receipt of
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0010| the conference committee report by the house and a vote on
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0011| the report.
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0012| D. Conference committees are subject to the
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0013| provisions of the Open Meetings Act, except for
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0014| requirements related to time periods for meeting notices,
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0015| publication of agendas and minutes.
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0016| E. Conference committees shall only consider
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0017| matters included in the house or senate versions of the
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0018| bill. Conference committees shall not agree to new terms or
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0019| provisions not included in the house or senate versions of
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0020| the bill. Conference committees shall not recommend
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0021| funding levels greater than the amount included in either
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0022| the house or senate version of the bill.".
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