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<baltimore-city-law heading="Rule 10-9 Committee reports – When reported">
  <section prefix="Rule" num="10-9" heading="Committee reports – When reported">
    <para num="(a)">In general. The chair of a committee shall offer the committee’s report on a bill on the floor of the City Council at the next regular meeting after the committee’s action on the bill.</para>
    <para num="(b)">Exception. Subsection (a) of this rule does not apply if:<para num="(1)">the committee otherwise directs by majority vote of the committee’s members; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">the committee’s action on the bill was taken too late to meet the next meeting’s deadline for submitting reports.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)">Committee amendments.<para num="(1)">Order of motions. When presenting a committee report on a bill to the Council, the chair of a committee shall move any amendments recommended by the committee for approval. After the amendments have been adopted or not adopted by the Council as a whole, the chair of the committee shall move for approval of the bill, as amended by any approved amendments.</para>
      <para num="(2)">Summary of amendments. When delivering a committee report, the chair of a committee shall summarize any amendments that the committee recommended.</para>
      <para num="(3)">Distribution. Amendments recommended by a committee shall be distributed to all Councilmembers no less than 24 hours before the start of the Council meeting at which they will be considered, unless the committee hearing takes place within 24 hours of the Council meeting in which case the amendments shall be distributed as soon as possible after the end of the committee hearing.</para>
    </para>
  </section>
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