Second Regular Session
              Sixty-eighth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
 
 LLS NO. R12-0857.01 Sharon Eubanks x4336          SR12-002
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Brophy and Hudak, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 
 
 
 State, Veterans & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                     SENATE RESOLUTION 12-002 
       Concerning modifications to the rules of the Senate.
       
       
            Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-eighth General Assembly
       of the State of Colorado:
       
            That in the Rules of the Senate, Rule No. 21, amend (b) as
       follows:
       
                  21. Committees
       
       (b)  The following committees shall be appointed at the beginning of
            each regular session of the General Assembly convening after a
            general election and at such other times as may be necessary, and
            the members of the committees shall serve at the pleasure of the
            appropriate appointing authority:
       
            (1)   Senate Services.
       
            (2)   Joint Budget Committee.
       
            (3)   Capital Development Committee.
       
            The majority leader of the Senate shall appoint the majority
            members to these committees, with the majority leader appointing
            to the Joint Budget Committee the majority party members elected
            by the Senate majority party caucus to serve on this committee.
            The minority leader shall appoint the minority members to these
            committees, with the minority leader appointing to the Joint
            Budget Committee the minority party member elected by the
            Senate minority party caucus to serve on this committee.
       
            That in the Rules of the Senate, Rule No. 22A, amend (b) (1)
       and (b) (3); repeal (b) (2); and add (b) (4) as follows:
       
         22A. Protection of Deliberations
       
       (b)  (1)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) (2) of this
                  rule, All wireless electronic devices including, but not
                  limited to telephone and such other communication
                  devices used for transmitting and receiving voice or data
                  communications, including but not limited to electronic
                  mail and text messaging, shall be rendered inoperable
                  mute so as not to emit any audible sound when
                  operated or used in the Senate chambers, in the
                  gallery of the Senate chambers, in the hearings of
                  Senate committees, in Senate party caucuses, or in any
                  other official meetings of Senate members held in the
                  Capitol or the Legislative Services Building.
       
            (2)   Laptop or notebook personal computers may be used in the
                  Senate chambers, in the hearings of Senate committees, in
                  Senate party caucuses, or in any other official meetings of
                  Senate members held in the Capitol or the Legislative
                  Services Building; however, during the third reading of
                  bills in the Senate chambers, laptop or notebook personal
                  computers shall be rendered inoperable for the purpose of
                  transmitting and receiving voice or data communications,
                  including but not limited to electronic mail and text
                  messaging.
       
            (3)   Wireless telephones and audible pagers or similar
                  electronic devices shall not be used for any audible
                  communications in the Senate chambers or in the gallery
                  of the Senate chambers.
       
            (4)   For purposes of this subsection (b), "wireless
                  electronic device" includes, but is not limited to, a
                  laptop computer, notebook computer, tablet
                  computer, and any telephone or other
                  communications device used for transmitting and
                  receiving voice or data communications, including
                  but not limited to electronic mail, text messaging,
                  and instant messaging.