HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 94813        FILED ON: 6/24/2010

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4813

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act Order relative to special procedures for consideration of further amendments offered to the recommended new text of the Senate Bill relative to business and job growth in the Commonwealth (Senate, No. 2380), or amendments offered to the House amended text to said bill.

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,June 24, 2010.

Ordered, That, notwithstanding the provisions of any rule to the contrary, further amendments to the House amendments recommended by the committee on Ways and Means to the Senate Bill relative to business and job growth in the Commonwealth (Senate, No. 2380), or amendments to a substituted text thereof adopted by the House, as 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 3:00 p.m. on Monday, June 28, 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any amendment not complying with the provisions of the special rules of procedure stated herein shall be considered withdrawn.