A SENATE RESOLUTION to amend the permanent rules of the senate concerning consideration and referral of certain resolutions.
Be it resolved by the Senate:
SECTION 1.  Senate Rule 40(b1), as contained in Senate Resolution 1, 2013 Regular Session of the General Assembly, reads as rewritten:
"(b1)	Simple resolutions conforming to subsection (b) of this section and any Senate or House joint resolutions shall be read for the first time in their regular order. Upon such first reading such resolution the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate may either refer the resolution to committee or place it at the end of the calendar for a Tuesday for consideration and decision without debate. The foregoing requirement of Tuesday consideration shall not apply to second reading of (i) resolutions specifically contemplated by the North Carolina Constitution or statute or (ii) resolutions that pertain to the internal functioning of either or both houses of the General Assembly. This subsection does not apply to third reading of any joint resolution."
SECTION 2.  This resolution is effective upon adoption.