§ 9.116. Printing of amended bills.
(a) General.—Bills reported or re-reported from committee with amendments and bills on the calendar amended by the house must be reprinted and a new printer’s number assigned before any action is taken thereon.
(b) Form.—In printing bills following amendments either in committee or on the floor, all language eliminated by the amendment appears in strike-out-type and all language inserted is in CAPITAL LETTERS. If the bill is again amended in the house of origin, everything appearing in strike-out-type in the former print is omitted from the new print, and the capital letters are changed to lower case. The same rule prevails in the case of the first amendment made by the house of reference. But if the house of reference amends the bill more than once, its former amendments are not eliminated from the print, because the house of origin uust have before it all amendments made by the house of reference in order to decide whether or not it will concur in the changes.
(c) Conflicting amendments.—Frequently, separate amendments which are in conflict with each other are adopted to the same printer’s number. In such case, in inserting the adopted amendments into the bill for reprinting, the Bureau attempts to resolve this conflict. When the conflict cannot be resolved, a reprinted bill may contain conflicting provisions. While the Bureau attempts to alert the leadership of the house in which the bill is under consideration as to the conflict, it is necessary for the house to carefully review the new print and correct the conflict by amendment or other appropriate action.
(d) Corrective reprints.—Occasionally, bills reprinted for the purpose of incorporating amendments adopted by either house or a committee contain errors which merit correction before consideration by the house having possession of the bill. In such case, the bill is reprinted without formal amendment with the caption ‘‘CORRECTIVE REPRINT’’ at the top of the first page of the bill. If the words ‘‘HOUSE AMENDED’’ or ‘‘SENATE AMENDED’’ also appear, they are immediately preceded on a separate line by ‘‘CORRECTIVE REPRINT’’. The form of the bill is not changed to show the error or the correction.
(e) Receding from amendments.—If a bill has been amended and reprinted and thereafter an amendment is reconsidered and defeated, the amendment is removed from the bill and the new print will be reproduced as if the amendment had not been adopted. The action line on the new print will carry the information that the amendment was reconsidered.
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