§ 3. Order of business. a. The first business of each day's session\nshall be the reading of the Journal of the preceding day, and the\ncorrection of any errors that may be found to exist therein, provided,\nhowever, that such reading of the Journal may be waived, without debate,\nupon a majority vote of the members present and provided further that on\nany day on which bills on any order of third reading are before the\nHouse for final disposition, and a vote is to be taken thereon, a roll\ncall of the members shall be taken for attendance purposes prior to the\nreading of such Journal. Such roll call may be taken by electronic\ndevice. Immediately thereafter, except on days and at times set apart\nfor the consideration of special orders, the order of business, which\nshall not be departed from except by a vote of two-thirds of the members\npresent, to be determined by a call of the roll, shall be as follows:\n (1) messages from the Governor and from the Senate, communications\nfrom State officers and reports from State institutions;\n (2) introduction of bills and reference to committee;\n (3) reports of committees;\n (4) bills on second reading;\n (5) bills on third reading;\n (6) Assembly bills amended by the Senate; and\n (7) introduction of original resolutions.\n b. At the commencement of each day's session the Majority Leader, or\nhis or her designee, shall announce a schedule of legislation intended\nfor consent and debate. All bills appearing on the order of third\nreading or the order of special second and third reading for the first\ntime shall be included within such schedule.\n c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision a of this section,\nmessages from the Governor and Senate, communications and reports from\nState officers, reports from the Judiciary Committee which involve the\nright of a member to his or her seat and reports from the Committee on\nRules shall be received at any time.\n d. When consideration of the orders of the day is not finished, those\nnot acted upon shall be the orders for the next and each succeeding day\nuntil disposed of, and shall be entered first in the Calendar without\nchange in their order.\n e. Any matter may be made a special order for any particular day by\nthe assent of two-thirds of the members present. When so made, a\nsimilar vote shall be required to rescind or postpone such matter.\n f. Petitions, memorials and remonstrances may be presented to the\nClerk of the Assembly at the close of each day's session.\n
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