Motions; previous questions

§ 4. Motions; previous questions. a. When a question is before the Assembly, only the following motions shall be received, and such motions shall have precedence in the order stated: (1) for an adjournment of the House; (2) a call of the House; (3) for the previous question; (4) to lay on the table; (5) to postpone to a certain day; (6) to commit; (7) to amend; (8) to postpone indefinitely; and (9) to strike from the Calendar. b. A motion to reconsider any vote must be made on the same day on which the vote proposed to be reconsidered was taken, or within the three legislative days next succeeding such day, and except in the case of a vote on the final passage of a bill, by a member who voted in the majority, providing, however, that the vote upon the final passage of a bill recalled from the Senate may be reconsidered at any time after it is returned to the House. A motion to reconsider may be made under any order of business but shall be considered only under the order of business in which the vote proposed to be reconsidered occurred. The motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill shall be privileged to any member, but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order, after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the House, unless subsequently recalled by a vote of the House and in possession of the Clerk of the Assembly. c. When a motion for reconsideration is decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered, and no question shall be twice reconsidered; nor shall any vote be reconsidered upon the following motions: (1) to adjourn; (2) to lay on the table; (3) to take from the table; and (4) for the previous question. d. The "previous question" shall be put as follows: "Shall the main question now be put?" and until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments or debate. When, on taking the previous question, the House shall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The "main question" shall be the advancement or passage of the bill, resolution or other matter under consideration; but when amendments are pending, the question shall first be taken upon such amendments in their order.