Bill Text: MI SR0075 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: A resolution to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-14 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SR0075 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SR0075-Introduced.html
Senator Hertel offered the following resolution:
Senate Resolution No. 75.
A resolution to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate.
Resolved by the Senate, That Rule 3.902 of the Standing Rules of the Senate is hereby amended to read as follows:
"3.902 FLOOR PRIVILEGE AND CONDUCT
A) A session of the Senate shall be defined, for the purposes of this rule, as any period of time when the Senate is in session, any recess, and any fifteen (15)-minute period before the Senate convenes and five (5) minutes after it adjourns. The Senate floor is defined as the Senate Chamber and adjoining Rooms S212, S204 (E. Lakin Brown Room), S204A, S201, and S207. Access to the Senate floor shall be restricted as outlined below during any session of the Senate, except that members of the public are permitted in Room S204 when a scheduled press conference is held there during session.
1) No person, other than the following, shall be admitted to the Senate floor:
a) Senators or Representatives
b) The President of the Senate
c) The Governor
d) Senators or Representatives in Congress
e) Former Michigan Legislators
f) The Secretary of the Senate and his or her support staff
g) Legislative staff as authorized in guidelines issued by the Senate Majority Leader
h) One (1) representative of the Governor, which shall include the Attorney General or their staff and the Secretary of State and their staff
i) Members of the immediate family of a Senator or the President of the Senate
j) Registered members of the media pursuant to Rule 3.901
k) A guest who has been invited by a Senator to offer the invocation, and an immediate family member of that guest.
2) No registered lobbyist or lobbyist agent, including former Legislators, shall be allowed on the Senate floor. They shall not be allowed in the hallway behind the Senate rostrum, unless en route to or from the Lieutenant Governor's Office (S215) or the Elijah Myers Room (S208).
3) A former Legislator shall not lobby on the Senate floor, except if they are admitted under Senate Rule 3.902 A) 1) g) or h).
B) No person shall engage in any conduct on the Senate floor during any session of the Senate which undermines the decorum of the Senate. All persons who are admitted to the Senate floor shall observe the following guidelines:
1) No Senator shall speak until recognized by the presiding officer, unless the Senator rises to make a point of order.
2) Except as otherwise outlined in other Senate rules, no Senator shall speak on any matter not properly before the Senate.
3) No Senator shall speak more than twice in any one (1) debate on the same day, without leave of the Senate, except the Senator who sponsored the matter under consideration, the Senator who sponsored the bill, resolution, or alternative measure if an amendment is under consideration, the chairperson of the committee which reported it and the chairperson of the subcommittee which considered the matter. Each speech shall not exceed five (5) minutes or, if submitted in writing, shall not exceed one thousand (1,000) words, except there is no limit on the length of an oral dissent statement.
4) No Senator shall speak impertinently or submit in writing impertinent statements, attack the motives of any Senator who proposes or advocates a particular position, use indecent language or other disorderly words, or refer to another Senator by name in a disparaging way.
5) No Senator shall use a display, exhibit, or prop on the Senate floor during discussions, debate, statements, or the announcement of the introduction of a bill, resolution, or alternative measure.
6) No person other than a Senator, the President of the Senate, the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Senate, or the Sergeants at Arms shall pass through the well of the Senate Chamber which is immediately in front of the Senate rostrum.
7) No person shall pass between the presiding officer and a Senator who is speaking.
8) No person other than a Senator, the President of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate, or the Sergeants at Arms shall use the center aisle of the Chamber.
9) No person other than a Senator shall sit in a Senator's chair.
10) No staff shall be allowed on the Senate floor unless they wait in the majority or minority lounge or the lounge at the rear of the Chamber until they are needed by a Senator and shall then be seated at a Senator's desk.
11) No member of the media shall be allowed on the Senate floor unless he or she is in the media's designated area, except as otherwise provided in Rule 3.901.
12) No smoking shall be permitted on the Senate floor.
13) All individual electronic devices shall be turned off or on non-audible alert during Senate session. Failure to follow a warning issued by the presiding officer or Chair may result in the device(s) being confiscated for the duration of the session upon direction of the presiding officer or Chair.
14) THE PRESIDING OFFICER OR CHAIR SHALL NOT USE INDIVIDUAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES WHILE PRESIDING.".
