Standing Rules of the Senate
RULE X
SPECIAL ORDERS
1. Any subject may, by a vote of two-thirds of the Senators present,
be made a special order of business for consideration and when the time so fixed
for its consideration arrives the Presiding Officer shall lay it before the
Senate, unless there be unfinished business in which case it takes its place
on the Calendar of Special Orders in the order of time at which it was made
special, to be considered in that order when there is no unfinished business.
2. All motions to change such order, or to proceed to the consideration of other
business, shall be decided without debate. |