{"id":4129,"date":"2011-04-12T00:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2011-04-12T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T14:08:34","slug":"ga-senate-rules-on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/ga-senate-rules-on-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ga. Senate Rules on voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

SECTION FIVE <\/strong> HERE<\/a>
\nVOTING<\/p>\n

5-1.1 Votes Required for Passage
\n(a) No bill shall become law unless it shall receive a majority of the votes of all
\nthe members to which each house is entitled, and such vote shall so appear on the
\nJournal of each house. (Ga. Const., art. III, sec. V, par. V.)
\n(b) In the event no specific vote is provided in these Rules for the passage of any
\nSenate amendment, motion or procedural matters and on all other matters not
\notherwise provided for in these Rules, the vote for passage or adoption thereof
\nshall be a majority of those voting, provided the total vote constitutes a quorum.
\n(c) As to all resolutions not otherwise provided for in these Rules, the vote for
\nadoption shall be by a majority of the votes of all the members to which the Senate
\nis entitled.
\n5-1.2 Quorum
\n(a) A majority of the members to which the Senate is entitled shall constitute a
\nquorum to transact business. A smaller number may adjourn from day to day and
\ncompel the presence of its absent members. (Ga. Const., art. III, sec. IV, par. III.)
\n(b) The power to compel the attendance of Senators, in order to keep or secure a
\nquorum, shall be vested in the President, and to this end he or she may have the
\ndoors of the Senate closed. When the doors are so closed, no Senator shall be
\nallowed to retire from the Senate without first obtaining leave from the Senate.
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\n(c) The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate on order of the President may arrest any
\nabsentees and bring them before the Senate when necessary to secure a quorum.
\n5-1.3 Voting, General
\n(a) No Senator shall be permitted to cast his or her vote on any motion, resolution,
\namendment, bill, or other question, until the question is put to the Senate by the
\nPresident by voice vote, or division of the Senate, or until after the roll call has
\nbegun.
\n(b) The President’s method of stating the question on any motion for a voice vote
\nshall be as follows: “All those who favor the motion shall rise, stand and be
\ncounted”; after a count is had by the Secretary of the Senate, he or she shall call
\nupon the Senators to “Reverse your position,” and the President shall announce the
\nresult.
\n(c) In either house, when ordered by the presiding officer or at the desire of onefifth
\nof the members present or a lesser number if so provided by the rules of
\neither house, a roll-call vote on any question shall be taken and shall be entered on
\nthe Journal. (Ga. Const., art. III, sec. V, par. VI.)
\n(d) Any Senator or the presiding officer may call for a division on any matter
\nbefore the Senate, and the presiding officer may order a roll call or any Senator
\nmay call for the Yeas and Nays; if the call for the Yeas and Nays is sustained by
\nfive (5) of the members voting, the vote shall be taken by the Yeas and Nays and
\nso entered on the Journal. A motion for the call of the Yeas and Nays shall be
\ndecided without debate.
\n(e) Whenever on any question the Yeas and Nays shall have been ordered, the
\nSecretary shall also enter on the Journal the names of those members not voting.<\/strong>5-1.4 Final Passage
\n(a) On the final passage of all bills and resolutions having the effect of law, the
\nadoption of all Committee on Conference reports, or any action that would have
\nthe effect of finalizing the Senate’s action on any general bill or resolution or
\nconfirmation, there shall be a recorded vote.
\n(b) The yeas and nays in the Senate shall be recorded and entered on the Journal
\nupon the passage or rejection of any bill or resolution appropriating money and
\nwhenever the Constitution requires a vote of two-thirds of either or both houses
\nfor the passage of a bill or resolution. (Ga. Const., art. III, sec. V, par. VI.)
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\n5-1.5 Electronic Roll Call System
\n(a) In all instances where the Rules, statutes or Constitution provide for the Yeas
\nand Nays or a roll call, the electronic roll call system shall be used. The system
\nshall be set so that it automatically locks and records the vote sixty (60) seconds
\nafter it is activated. When the presiding officer ascertains that the electronic roll
\ncall system is inoperative, he or she shall order the Secretary of the Senate to call
\nthe roll and the voice votes of each Senator recorded.
\n(b) The official roll call shall be printed by the electronic roll call system, and shall
\nnever in any way be altered or the votes recorded thereon changed.
\n(c) When the electronic roll call system is used, the voting procedure shall be:
\nafter the main question is put, the presiding officer shall state, “The question is on
\n(designating the matter to be voted upon), all in favor vote Yea, and all opposed,
\nNay; the Secretary will unlock the machine”; after the machine is electronically
\nlocked and records the vote, the presiding officer shall announce the vote and
\ndeclare the results.
\n5-1.6 Debate Prohibited During Voting
\nDuring a vote on any question, no debate shall be had.
\n5-1.7 Verification of Vote; Change of Vote
\n(a) On the call of the Yeas and Nays by voice vote, the Secretary of the Senate
\nshall read the names of the Senators after they have been called, and no Senator
\nshall be permitted to change his or her vote, unless he or she, declares that he or
\nshe voted by mistake of the question. When the electronic roll call system is used,
\nthis Rule shall be inoperative.
\n(b) When the electronic roll call system is used, no verification of the roll call is
\nrequired, but when a roll call vote is taken, it shall be verified unless suspended by
\nunanimous consent. No Senator shall be permitted to change his or her vote for
\nany reason.
\n5-1.8 Voting Prohibitions
\n(a) No Senator or person shall vote for or attempt to vote for another Senator on
\nany questions. Violation of this Rule shall be deemed to be disorderly behavior
\nand subject to punishment as provided by the Constitution and Rules of the Senate.
\nThis Rule cannot be suspended by unanimous consent.
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\n(b) No pairing of members shall be recognized or allowed as an excuse for not
\nvoting.
\n(c) In every case where the seat of a Senator is being contested, the sitting Senator
\nand the contestant shall both retire from the Senate before the vote is taken.
\n(d) No Senator shall vote upon any question if the Senator or any member of the
\nSenator\u2019s immediate family has a direct pecuniary interest in the result of such
\nvote which interest is distinct, unique or peculiar to the Senator or the Senator\u2019s
\nimmediate family. Unanimous consent to be excused under this rule should be
\nmoved verbally.
\n5-1.9 Explanation of Vote
\nNo member shall be permitted to explain his or her vote during a roll call;
\nhowever, on all questions, except such as are not debatable, any Senator shall be
\npermitted to explain his or her vote by reducing his or her explanation to writing in
\nno more than two hundred-fifty (250) words. The writing shall not impugn the
\nmotives of any other Senator, and if filed with the Secretary of the Senate before
\nthe confirmation of the Journal on the day next succeeding such vote, shall be
\nentered on the Journal of that day.
\n5-1.10 No Quorum Present
\n(a) Whenever the result of a vote taken shall disclose the fact that no quorum of
\nthe Senate is present, or when the President shall officially state the fact to the
\nSenate, it shall be in order for any Senator to make a motion for a call of the
\nSenate. When such motion is made, the President shall state the question as
\nfollows: “Shall the motion for the call of the Senate prevail?” and if five of the
\nSenators present shall vote in the affirmative, the President shall order the
\nSecretary of the Senate to call the roll of Senators, and the absentees shall be
\nnoted. The doors shall then be closed, after which the names of the absentees shall
\nagain be called. Those who do not appear, and who are absent without leave, may,
\nby order of the majority of the Senators present, be sent for and arrested wherever
\nthey may be found by officers to be appointed by the Sergeant at Arms for that
\npurpose, and their attendance secured, and the Senate shall determine upon what
\nconditions they shall be discharged.
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\n(b) When less than a quorum vote on any subject under consideration by the
\nSenate, the President may order the doors of the Senate be closed and the roll of
\nSenators called by the Secretary, or recorded on the electronic roll call system. If it
\nis ascertained that a quorum is present, either by answering to their names or by
\ntheir presence in the Senate, the refusal of any Senator present to vote, unless
\nexcused, shall be deemed a contempt of the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SECTION FIVE HERE VOTING 5-1.1 Votes Required for Passage (a) No bill shall become law unless it shall receive a majority of the votes of all the members to which each house is entitled, and such vote shall so appear on the Journal of each house. (Ga. Const., art. III, sec. V, par. V.) (b) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}