§ 4. Motions; previous questions. a. When a question is before the\nAssembly, only the following motions shall be received, and such motions\nshall have precedence in the order stated:\n (1) for an adjournment of the House;\n (2) a call of the House;\n (3) for the previous question;\n (4) to lay on the table;\n (5) to postpone to a certain day;\n (6) to commit;\n (7) to amend;\n (8) to postpone indefinitely; and\n (9) to strike from the Calendar.\n b. A motion to reconsider any vote must be made on the same day on\nwhich the vote proposed to be reconsidered was taken, or within the\nthree legislative days next succeeding such day, and except in the case\nof a vote on the final passage of a bill, by a member who voted in the\nmajority, providing, however, that the vote upon the final passage of a\nbill recalled from the Senate may be reconsidered at any time after it\nis returned to the House. A motion to reconsider may be made under any\norder of business but shall be considered only under the order of\nbusiness in which the vote proposed to be reconsidered occurred. The\nmotion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill shall be\nprivileged to any member, but no motion for the reconsideration of any\nvote shall be in order, after a bill, resolution, message, report,\namendment or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of\nthe possession of the House, unless subsequently recalled by a vote of\nthe House and in possession of the Clerk of the Assembly.\n c. When a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall\nnot be reconsidered, and no question shall be twice reconsidered; nor\nshall any vote be reconsidered upon the following motions:\n (1) to adjourn;\n (2) to lay on the table;\n (3) to take from the table; and\n (4) for the previous question.\n d. The "previous question" shall be put as follows: "Shall the main\nquestion now be put?" and until it is decided, shall preclude all\namendments or debate. When, on taking the previous question, the House\nshall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main\nquestion shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The "main\nquestion" shall be the advancement or passage of the bill, resolution or\nother matter under consideration; but when amendments are pending, the\nquestion shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order.\n
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