§ 9920 Legislative Rule Adoption

• •The Senate and Assembly must make their own rules for how they work, and they need at least two-thirds of their members to agree on these rules.
• •If they want to change a rule later, they still need two-thirds of their members to agree.
• •They can pause a rule for a short time if two-thirds of the members present agree, but only if enough members are there to make decisions.
• •This pause only works for the thing they're talking about right then and doesn't last after they take a break.

Imagine the Senate wants to change a rule about how long they can talk about a new law.

They can only change this rule if at least two-thirds of the Senate members vote 'yes' for the change. If they just want to ignore the rule for one discussion, they can do that with a two-thirds vote too, but only if most members are there, and it only applies to that one discussion.