INDEX TO THE HOUSE RULES

List of Sections of the House Rules

Adjournment motion - Rule 503

Amendments

• Consideration - Rule 504
• Germaneness - Rule 506
• Printing - Rule 507

Assistant Clerk - Rule 103

Assistant Sergeant-at-arms, appointment - 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

Bills and Resolves

• Engrossment - Rule 517
• Examination - Rules 515; 517
• Form and introduction - Rules 514; 518
• Readings - Rules 516; 517
• Statutory provisions, House proceedings - Rule 107
• Transmittal to Senate - Rule 520
• Veto - Rule 521

Bills in the Second Reading Committee - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. J; 515

Blanks, filling - Rule 505

Business

• Order - Rule 501
• Quorum necessary - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. A
• Time for consideration - Rule 505
• Unfinished - Rule 502

Calendar - Rule 301, Sec. 12

Chaplains - Rule 101

Clerk

• Duties - Rule 301
• Responsibility for legislative papers - Rules 301; 401, Sec. 10; 511
• Vacancy in office - Rule 103

Clerk pro tempore - Rule 103

Committees

• Appointment - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. J; 301, Sec. 4
• Business - Rule 301, Sec. 4
• Joint Standing Committees, reports - Rule 519
• Standing Committees - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. J

Consent Calendar - Rule 519

Courier, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

Debate, relevance - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. M; 401, Sec. 5

Decorum - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. D; 401, Sec. 6

Division of questions - Rule 504

Document Clerk, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

Doorkeeper, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

Elections Committee - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. J

Elections of the House

• Conduct of members - Rule 401, Sec. 12
• Time - Rule 512

Electronic Devices - Rules 108, 109

Engrossed Bills Committee - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. J; 517

Ethics Committee - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. J

Expressions of Legislative Sentiment - Rule 519

Guests, admission - Rule 106

Hall of the House, floor privileges - Rules 105; 106

Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, privileges of representative - Rule 525

Joint Conventions - Rule 108

Journal

• Decisions re points of order entered - Rule 301, Sec. 13
• Notice of new or changed rules - Rule 524
• Preparation - Rule 301, Sec. 1
• Reading - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. A; 501

Leave of Absence Committee - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. J; 401, Sec. 9

Legal counsel, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 2, Par. B

Lobbyists, restrictions - Rule 105

Mason's Rules - Rule 522

Members

• Approach to the rostrum - Rule 401, Sec. 3
• Attendance - Rule 401, Sec. 9
• Conflict of interests - Rule 401, Sec. 8 and Sec. 12
• Decorum - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. D; 401, Sec. 6
• Leave of Absence - Rule 401, Sec. 9 and Sec. 10
• Loss of privileges - Rule 401, Sec. 11
• Observance of rules - Rules 102; 401, Sec. 11
• Recognition - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. K
• Seats - Rules 401, Sec. 1; 525
• Signature on amendments - Rule 507
• Signature on bills and resolves - Rule 514
• Speeches
  • Interruptions - Rule 401, Sec. 6
  • Manner - Rule 401, Sec. 4
  • Number allowed - Rule 401, Sec. 7
• Voting required - Rule 401, Sec. 12

Memorials, form and introduction - Rule 514

Monitors - Rules 102; 201, Sec. 1, Par. L

Motions

• Action on or withdrawal - Rule 508
• Precedence - Rule 503, Par. A
• Questions of Concurrence, precedence - Rule 503, Par. B

National Anthem - Rule 101

Orders

• Action on - Rule 508
• Amendment - Rule 524
• Appearance on Calendar - Rule 301, Sec. 12
• Dispensation - Rule 523

Orders of the day - Rules 501; 502

Pages, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

• Honorary - Rule 201, Sec. 2, Par. A

Pairing of Votes - Rule 401, Sec. 2

Parliamentary practice - Rule 522

Partisan staff, appointments - Rule 104

Passamaquoddy Tribe, privileges of representative - Rule 525

Penobscot Nation, privileges of representative - Rule 525

Petitions, form and introduction - Rule 514

Points of Order - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. E; 201, Sec. 2, Par. C; 301, Sec. 13

Press, admission - Rule 106

Previous question - Rule 504

Questions of order (See Points of Order)

Quorum - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. A

Reconsideration - Rules 508; 511

Reed's Rules - Rule 522

Revisor of Statutes, Director - Rule 515

Riders, prohibited - Rule 506

Roll Calls

• Motion - Rules 504; 510
• Record - Rule 301, Sec. 3
• Voting Required - Rule 401, Sec. 12

Rules

• Amendments - Rule 524
• Authorities - Rule 522
• Dispensation - Rule 523
• Enforcement - Rules 102; 201, Sec. 1, Par. L

Rules and Business of the House Committee - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. J

Sergeant-at-arms, appointment - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I, Sub-Par.(b)

Sessions, daily, 9 p.m. limit - Rule 501

Speaker

• Announcement of business - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. B
• Appointment of committees - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I and Par. J
• Appointment of subordinate officers - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I
• Appointment, rescinding - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. I
• Change of seating - Rule 401, Sec. 1
• Declaration of votes - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. C; 509; 510
• Duties and powers - Rule 201
• Duties, relevance of debate - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. M
• Notice re engrossed bills and resolves - Rule 520
• Points of order, discussion and decision - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. E; 201, Sec. 2, Par. C
• Recognition of members - Rules 201, Sec. 1, Par. K; 401, Sec. 7
• Rules and Business of the House Committee - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. J
• Signing of Bills - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. G
• Voting by Members, regulations - Rule 401, Sec. 2 and Sec. 12
• Voting privileges - Rule 201, Sec. 2, Par. D

Speaker pro tempore - Rule 201, Sec. 1, Par. H; 301, Sec. 8

Standing Committees (See Committees)

Supreme Judicial Court, Opinion of the Justices - Rule 513

Tabling motion - Rules 503; 511

Vetoes - Rule 521

Votes and Voting

• Conduct of members - Rule 401, Sec. 11 and Sec. 12
• Pairing - Rule 401, Sec. 2
• Procedures when doubted - Rule 509

Yeas and Nays (See also Roll Calls) - Rule 510