House Resolution No. 2 - House Rules Summary

• Establishes procedural rules for the Connecticut House of Representatives for the 2023 and 2024 legislative sessions, covering the speaker's duties, clerk responsibilities, committee structure, and voting procedures.

• Speaker presides over daily sessions, maintains order, decides questions of order subject to House appeal, and appoints deputy speakers, chaplain, and deputy chaplains; acts of speaker on disturbances can preserve and restore order in Capitol buildings.

• Clerk maintains journal and calendar of bills, manages bill referrals and advancement through committees, and must provide electronic notice of certified bill filings with required waiting periods (6-12 hours depending on bill type).

• Sets parliamentary procedures including amendment filing deadlines (10 a.m. on action day), motion precedence, vote reconsideration limits, roll call voting requirements for final bill actions, and consent calendar provisions allowing expedited passage of non-controversial bills.

• Establishes a House Select Committee on Connecticut's Sustainable and Renewable Energy for the 2023 regular session with two members appointed by the speaker and two by the minority leader.