Resources in Parliamentary Procedure     

I. Core Materials to Supplement Current Versions of House and Senate Rules

II. Congressional Materials

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual
• New editions are usually authorized at the end of a Congress for printing at the beginning of the next Congress
• House Rules adopted by the 118th Congress can be found at:
  House Rules for the 118th Congress

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual
• Listed in Texas House Rules as an alternate source when Texas Rules are silent (6th, 12th, and 15th–55th Legislatures)

• Footnoted in Texas House Practice
• Volumes 1–10 (1936–1986) known as Deschler's Precedents
• Volumes 11– (1987– ) known as Deschler-Brown Precedents

• Footnoted in Texas House Rules and Texas House Practice
• Covers 1789–1936

• Summary review of selected precedents and a concordance or quick reference guide to the more exhaustive House Rules, Jefferson's Manual, and various volumes of House precedents

• Replaced by House Practice, yet remains useful since other parliamentary sources refer to it
• Last edition published in 1982; supplemented in 1987

• Summary of major precedents presented in Hinds' and Cannon's Precedents

• New editions prepared during second session of each Congress
• Senate Rules adopted by the current Congress can be found at:
  Senate Rules

• "Description of the House and Senate legislative machines, and of their political and parliamentary procedures in action"
• References to precedent volumes

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• Listed in Texas House Rules as an alternate source when Texas Rules are silent (12th, 13th, and 16th Legislatures)

• Listed in Texas House Rules as an alternate source when Texas Rules are silent (15th–26th Legislatures)
• Usually found bound with Constitution of the United States and Jefferson's Manual

• Listed in Texas House Rules as an alternate source when Texas Rules are silent (17th–26th Legislatures)
• Sometimes found bound with Constitution of the United States and Jefferson's Manual

• Published as Senate Miscellaneous Document 278, 53rd Congress, 2nd Session, for use by Special Senate Committee to Investigate Attempts at Bribery, etc., under the resolutions of May 17, 19, and 28, and August 16, 1894

• CRS report for Congress
• "Describes the coverage, format, and availability of documents that set forth these procedural authorities, and notes principles of House procedural practice that bear on appropriate use of these sources"

• CRS report for Congress
• "Describes the coverage, format, and availability of three types of Senate parliamentary reference sources: official sources; publication of committees and offices of the Senate; and rules of party conferences"

• CRS report for Congress

• CRS report for Congress

• CRS report for Congress

• CRS report for Congress

• CRS report for Congress

III. Selected Additional Titles Referenced in Mason's Manual

• "The subject of this work is what may be denominated the common parliamentary law as modified in our legislative assemblies"
• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Note in Mason's states text unchanged in editions from 1907 to 1947, inclusive; library's copy is 1914 edition
• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• "A textbook on parliamentary law, a reference book, and self-instruction in the rules of parliamentary procedure"
• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Robert's Rules of Order: our history
• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Sturgis parliamentary procedure motions chart
• Footnoted in Mason's Manual
• Second most popular parliamentary authority in the United States, after Robert's Rules of Order, per a 2000 survey of certified parliamentarians

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

• Footnoted in Mason's Manual

IV. Other Parliamentary Practice Materials

• Uses Mason's Manual as a "point of departure"
• Pocket guide designed for presiding officers and other members, "particularly to new or temporary presiders"

• Written by parliamentarian of the U.S. House of Representatives
• "Has taken the approach that the House parliamentary system is readily adaptable to any membership organization that needs some form of parliamentary procedure"

• Traces the history of public and private meeting processes from ancient times to 2006

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• "Simplified parliamentary authority based on modern procedural practices"
• Parliamentarians and co-author of 4th edition of the Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

• Written by a former parliamentarian of the Texas Legislature, in addition to being the wife of a governor and mother of a lieutenant governor

• Published by National Conference of State Legislatures; serves as a primer on parlimentary fundamentals in an easy-to-read format.

V. Constitutional Reference Materials

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• Analysis of cases interpreting the Constitution
• Proposed amendments not ratified by states
• State constitutional and statutory provisions and municipal ordinances held unconstitutional or held to be preempted by federal law

• "Collection of thoughts, opinions, and arguments of the founders"

VI. Historical Texas Legislative Procedure and Rules Materials

Rules

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• Contains rules for both chambers

Guides/Indexes

• Series goes back to 67th Legislature

• Available for the 83rd and 84th Legislatures

• Compiled by R.H. "Dick" Cory, a member of the House of Representatives from 1954–1971

• Memo to Senate staff from Nancy B. Macken of the Texas Legislative Council delineating "several House rules and procedures that will come into play as you work to get your senator's legislation through the House"

Special Rules/Procedures

• Election of Bill Ratliff as lieutenant governor on December 28, 2000

• Impeachment against O.P. Carillo, judge of the 229th Judicial District

• Impeachment against James E. Ferguson, governor

• Impeachment against James E. Ferguson, governor

• Impeachment against W.L. McGaughey, commissioner of the General Land Office

• Impeachment against William H. Russell, judge of the 15th Judicial District

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Special Roles

• "Intended as a starting point for new parliamentarians in “identifying and dealing with both day-to-day tasks associated with the position of parliamentarian and particular procedural questions likely to arise"

• Includes sections on speaker, house administrator, chief clerk, sergeant-at-arms, employees of the House, House Administration Committee, House Journal, printing

Proposed Rule Changes/Reform

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• Presents suggested rule changes

• Appendices from the report are also available as separate publications from the Texas Legislative Council under the title Legislative Procedures and Practices:
  L1836.72 R861C–Committee Process
  L1836.72 R861H–History of Legislative Practices
  L1836.72 R861S–Scheduling Measures
  L1836.72 R861W–Workload
  

• Report in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Masters of Public Affairs degree, University of Texas at Austin
• Report contains information provided to Representative Libby Linebarger in her role as member of the 1991 Select Committee on Rules

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• Compilation of wide variety of information on procedure and rules, including various reports, reform suggestions, newspaper articles, etc.

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• Prepared for the speaker and the Interim Committee on House Organization and Operation by the Citizens Conference on State Legislatures
• Additional copy available at L1801.8 EV15

• Proposals on rules, procedures manual, personnel/positions classification system, and electronic data processing applications

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• "Compilation of historical material on various efforts at reform during the past twenty years . . . includes copies of various resolutions and proposals, letters of explanation, editorials, press stories, and other explanatory material"

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• Side-by-side presentation of current rules and suggested revisions

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