(a) When a conference committee has been requested and has been assented to, and prior to the delivery of the conference committee report to the secretary of the Senate or the chief clerk of the House, as the case may be, it shall be in order for the assenting house to take either of the following actions:
(1) Adhere to its position on the bill;
(2) Recede from its position on the bill.
(b) When a conference committee has been requested and has been assented to, and after the delivery of the conference committee report to the secretary of the Senate or the chief clerk of the House, as the case may be, it shall be in order for the assenting house to take any of the following actions:
(1) Adhere to its position on the bill;
(2) Recede from its position on the bill;
(3) Adopt the conference committee report;
(4) Reject the conference committee report and request that the conference committee be discharged and a new conference committee be appointed. When a conference committee report has been rejected pursuant to this paragraph (4), and the house requesting the original conference votes not to assent to the appointment of a new conference committee, no other action may be taken; except that the house assenting to the original conference may take any of the actions set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection (b).
(c) When a conference committee report has been adopted by the house assenting to the conference, it shall be in order for the house requesting the conference to take any of the following actions:
(1) Adhere to its position on the bill;
(2) Recede from its position on the bill, in which case the bill shall be returned to the house assenting to the conference for reconsideration of its vote to adopt the conference committee report;
(3) Adopt the conference committee report;
(4) Reject the conference committee report and request that the conference committee be discharged and a new conference committee be appointed. Such house may appoint members to the new conference committee, but the new conference committee shall not meet unless the house assenting to the conference votes, not later than the next day of actual session after the conference committee report is rejected, to reconsider their adoption of the conference committee report and to assent to the appointment of a new conference committee. If the house assenting to the original conference committee does not assent to the new conference committee, no other action may be taken; except that the house requesting the original conference committee may take any of the actions set forth in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection (c).
(d) On any vote to recede or to adhere under this Joint Rule, the same number shall be required to constitute a quorum to act thereon, and to assent to such a receding or to adhere, as was required on the original question out of which the difference arose.
(e) Third conference committees shall not be permitted.