Overview of the California Assembly Rules
The Standing Rules of the Assembly are contained in House Resolution 1
By Chris Micheli, April 30, 2022 4:10 pm
On the first day of the start of each two-year legislative session, the Assembly adopts rules for its internal procedures. For the 2021-2022 Session, the Standing Rules of the Assembly are contained in House Resolution 1 (Cooley). The following are all of those rules:
1 – Assembly General Officers
2 – Hours of Meeting
3 – Speaker to Call Assembly to Order
4 – Rollcall and Quorum
5 – Organization of Assembly
6 – Adoption of Standing Rules
7 – Suspension of Rules
8 – Amending Standing Rules
10 – Mason’s Manual
11 – Standing Committees
11.3 – Open Meetings
11.4 – Conference Committee Meetings
11.5 – Assembly Investigating Committees
12 – Membership of Standing Committees
13 – Committee on Rules
13.1 – Organization of Party Caucuses
14 – Powers of the Committee on Rules
14.5 – Subcommittee on Harassment, Discrimination, and Retaliation Prevention and Response
15 – Committee on Rules
15.5 – Operating Fund Report
15.6 – Independent Audit of Operating Funds
15.7 – Performance Audit
16 – Rules Committee Resolutions
17 – Assembly Operating Fund
18 – Expenditures
20 – Rules and Regulations Governing Committees
21 – Fees for Witnesses
22 – Assembly General Research Committee
22.5 – Assembly Legislative Ethics Committee
23 – Printing of Committee Reports
24 – Assembly Employees
25 – Public Legislative Meetings
26 – Duties of the Speaker
27 – Funerals and Other Ceremonies and Events
28 – Selection of Officers
29 – Duties of the Speaker pro Tempore
29.5 – Duties of the Assistant Speaker pro Tempore
30 – Majority Leader
31 – Caucus Chairpersons
32 – Chief Clerk
33 – Sergeant at Arms
34 – Filling Interim Vacancies—Assembly Elected Officers
35 – Authority for Printing
36 – Ordering of Printing
37 – Printing Assembly History and Legislative Handbook
37.5 – Transmittal of Assembly Joint Resolutions
40 – Order of Business
41 – Pledging of Allegiance to the Flag
42 – Reading and Correcting Journals
43 – Presentation of Petitions
44 – Messages from the Governor
45 – Messages from the Senate
45.5 – Presentation of Guests or Memorials in the Assembly
46 – Bills Defined
47 – Introduction and Reference of Bills
47.1 – Bills Authored by a Former Member
49 – Limitation on the Introduction of Bills
51 – Reference of Bills to Committee
51.5 – Spot Bills
52 – Delivery of Bills to State Printer
53 – Resolutions
54 – Resolutions by Member
55 – Standing Committee Rules
56 – Meetings of Standing Committees and Subcommittees
56.1 – Setting and Hearing Bills in Committee
56.5 – Committee Analyses
56.6 – Committee Consultants: Floor Analyses
56.7 – Consent Calendar
57 – Committee Quorum
57.1 – Reconsideration
58 – Bills Reported Back to Assembly
58.2 – Appropriations Suspense File
58.5 – Voting in Committee
59 – Subject Matter of Bill Recommended for Interim Study
60 – Committee Chairperson as Author
61 – Reports of Committees
62.5 – Constitutional Amendments
63 – Daily File
64 – Copies of Bills for Action on Floor
66 – Second Reading of Bills
66.6 – Bills Requiring General Fund Appropriation
67 – Committee Amendments and Coauthors
68 – Author’s Amendments
68.1 – Rules Committee Author’s Amendments
68.5 – Vote on Passage of Bill as Amended
68.6 – Bill Analysis Prior to Third Reading
68.7 – Analysis of Conference Committee Amendments
68.8 – Printing of Conference Committee Reports
68.9 – Conference Committee: Substantial Policy Change
69 – Amendments from the Floor and Coauthors
69.1 – Consideration of Political Reform Act Bills
69.2 – Consideration of Bills Amending the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act
69.5 – Electronic Distribution of Bills, Conference Reports, Amendments, and Analyses
70 – Consideration of Bills Re-referred to Committee
71 – Uncontested Bills
73 – Consideration of Concurrent and Joint Resolutions
74 – Adoption of Resolutions
75 – Printing of Resolutions
76 – Internet Publication Prior to Final Passage of Senate Bill
77 – Concurrence in Senate Amendments
77.1 – Digest of Bills Amended in Senate
77.2 – Substantially Amended Bills
78 – Inactive File
79 -Engrossing and Enrolling Bills
80 – Precedence of Motions During Debate
81 – Questions of Order Decided Without Debate
82 – Appeal from Decision of the Speaker
83 – Speaker Explains Order of Business
84 – To Adjourn
85 – To Recess to a Time Certain
86 – To Lay on the Table
87 – The Previous Question
88 – Motion to Set Special Order
89 – Motion to Postpone to a Time Certain
90 – Motion to Postpone Indefinitely
91 – Motion to Amend
92 – Amendment to be Germane
93 – Consideration of Motions
94 – Motions in Writing
95 – Withdrawal of Motions
96 – Motion to Withdraw or Re-refer Bills
97 – Re-reference of Measures on File
98 – Bills Stricken from File
99 – Motion to Rescind Action or Expunge Record
100 – Reconsideration of Vote
101 – Call of Assembly
102 – Division of Question
104 – Members Voting
105 – Ayes and Noes
106 – Voting and Vote Changes
107 – Tie Vote
108 – Order in Speaking to Questions
108.1 – Rules of Decorum
109 – Motions
110 – Leave of Absence
111 – Personal Privilege
112 – Objection to Reading of Any Paper
113 – Members at Chief Clerk’s Desk
114 – Members Called to Order for Transgressing Rules
115 – Committee of the Whole
116 – Use of Assembly Chamber
117 – Use of Assembly Facilities: Smoking
117.5 – Telephones and Electronic Communications
117.7 – Meeting of the Assembly: Firearms
118 – Persons Admitted to Floor of the Assembly
118.1 – Floor Attire
119 – Qualifications and Elections of Members
120 – Compensation and Expenses of Member Convicted of Felony
121 – The Seal of the Assembly
122 – Agency Reports: Electronic Copies
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