HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4777        FILED ON: 12/30/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4411

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Order relative to special procedures for consideration of the Senate Bill relative to the achievement gap (Senate, No. 2216).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

House of Representatives, December 30, 2009.

Ordered, That, notwithstanding the provisions of any rule to the contrary, amendments to Senate Bill No. 2216 , “A Bill Relative to the Achievement Gap", or further amendments to a substitute thereof recommended by the committee on Ways and Means, shall be filed with the Clerk of the House in electronic format to be determined by the Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on Monday, January 4, 2010; provided that the Clerk shall notify by electronic communication the primary sponsor of each amendment of the receipt of such amendment and the number assigned by said Clerk to said amendment; provided further that the Clerk shall print each amendment so filed electronically; and such printed copy shall be considered to be the official amendment; and be it further

        Ordered, That, except for perfecting or consolidated amendments offered by the committee on Ways and Means, no proposition on a subject different from the amendment under consideration shall be admitted under color of a further amendment, except that any member may remove his/her amendment from the consolidated amendment and offer it as an amendment in the first degree, to be acted upon before action is taken on the consolidated amendment.

   Ordered, That, any amendment not complying with the provisions of the special rules of procedure stated herein shall be considered withdrawn.