§ 6 — Reports

§ 6. Reports. a. A standing committee may report any bill, either with\nor without amendments, or it may report adversely to the same or it may\nreport that a bill has been held for further action and/or study. Upon a\nfavorable report of the committee on an Assembly Bill amended by the\nSenate, the bill shall appear upon the Calendar under the heading\n"Assembly Bills amended by the Senate".\n b. A report of a committee must contain the name of the committee\nmaking the same, the matter reported on, the name of the introducer and\nif a bill or resolution, the number of such bill or resolution. Such\nreport shall state whether such matter was reported:\n (1) favorably, with or without amendments or referred to another\ncommittee;\n (2) for the consideration of the House;\n (3) adversely;\n (4) for concurring in Senate amendments;\n (5) for repassing a Senate bill which has been recalled and amended;\nor\n (6) held for further action and/or study.\n c. If the report be on a resolution, petition, memorial or\nremonstrance it must contain the recommendations, if any, of the\ncommittee thereon.\n d. A list of the bills reported under their final numbers shall be\nfiled by the clerks of the committees with the Speaker, the Majority\nLeader, the Minority Leader, the Clerk of the Assembly, the Office of\nAssembly Revision and the Index Clerk. The Committee on Rules shall not\nbe required to file such lists with the Speaker, the Majority Leader or\nthe Minority Leader.\n e. All bills, except budget appropriation bills, reported favorably or\nfor consideration, if reported with amendments, shall be reprinted\nimmediately, and all new matter proposed by the committee to be added or\ninserted in existing law shall be underscored and all matter to be\neliminated from existing law, shall be printed in its proper place\nenclosed in black-faced brackets. Where a committee amends a bill by\neliminating proposed new matter, such new matter shall be omitted in the\nreprint of the bill.\n f. All budget appropriation bills reported favorably or for\nconsideration, if reported with amendments, shall be immediately\nreprinted, and the amendments proposed by the committee shall be\nunderscored in their proper place except in cases where the committee\nrecommends eliminating certain words or figures, in which cases such\nwords or figures shall be printed enclosed in black-faced brackets.\n g. All bills favorably reported shall, if the report be agreed to, be\nplaced on the order of second reading, except that any bill providing\nfor a state appropriation, or creating or increasing a charge (i) upon\nthe state or (ii) upon a local government shall, when favorably reported\nby any committee other than the Committee on Ways and Means, be referred\nto the Committee on Ways and Means. In the event such a bill is not\nreferred to the Committee on Ways and Means, the chairperson of such\nCommittee may require such referral, subject to the approval of the\nSpeaker. Where a committee report is not agreed to, the bill shall be\nbefore the House for disposition.\n h. Any bill, the subject matter of which is also within the\njurisdiction of another committee of the House may, subject to the\napproval of the Speaker, be favorably reported and referred or simply\nreferred to such other committee for review and recommendation only.\n i. Any bill which is referred to a standing committee other than the\nCommittee on Codes and which:\n (1) imposes or changes any fine, term of imprisonment, forfeiture of\nrights or other penal sanction; or\n (2) relates to the procedure by which such fine, term of imprisonment,\nforfeiture of rights or other penal sanction is imposed or changed,\nshall, when favorably reported by the committee having original\njurisdiction, be referred to the Committee on Codes for the purpose of\nhaving such Committee review and consider only such penalty or\nprocedural provisions of such bill and to thereafter favorably report\nsuch bill with amendments, if necessary, to such penalty or procedural\nprovisions. In the event that such a bill is not referred to the\nCommittee on Codes, the chairperson of such Committee may require such\nreferral, subject to the approval of the Speaker.\n j. Where a bill has been reported adversely, and such report shall be\nagreed to by the House, it shall be considered rejected. No bill shall\nbe reported adversely by any committee until ten days after the\nreference of such bill to the committee and the bill shall have been\nprinted and been upon the desks of the members for ten days.\n k. No bill shall be reported by a committee, except in its last\namended form at the time of such report. Whenever a bill which is in\ncommittee is amended, the clerk of such committee shall promptly return\nto the Office of Journal Operations the original copy of such bill.\n l. Where a "home rule" request, or a certificate of necessity or an\nemergency message from the Governor is required as provided in any\nsection of Article IX or Article XIII of the Constitution, such request,\ncertificate or message must be filed with the Office of Journal\nOperations before such bill can be reported by a committee.\n m. Concurrent resolutions proposing amendments to the State\nConstitution shall be initially referred to the standing committee\nhaving jurisdiction over the subject matter of the contents of such\nresolution. Such concurrent resolution shall, when favorably reported by\nsuch committee, be referred to the Committee on Judiciary for final\nconsideration. In the event that such a resolution is not referred to\nthe Committee on Judiciary, the chairperson of such Committee may\nrequire such referral subject to the approval of the Speaker.\n n. On and after the first legislative day in June, all bills favorably\nreported by a standing committee which would otherwise be placed on the\norder of second reading shall be referred, in accordance with paragraph\none of subdivision b of section ten of Rule IV, to the Committee on\nRules.\n