Multi-sponsorship

§ 2. Multi-sponsorship. Any Senator may join together in the multi-sponsorship of a bill. If two or more Senators join together when a bill is first introduced and before it is printed, the names of all multi-sponsors shall appear on the printed bill upon the following conditions: a. Multi-sponsors shall file a written request in duplicate to act as such, on forms provided, with the Revision Clerk of the Senate. The first name appearing on the bill shall be deemed the introducer and all others deemed multi-sponsors. b. The introducer shall at all times retain exclusive control of the bill until formally acted upon by the Senate and any motion to discharge a bill out of committee by a member who is not the introducer of the bill shall be out of order. c. After a multi-sponsored bill has been printed, any multi-sponsor desiring to withdraw from such multi-sponsorship shall file a written request on a form provided so that his or her name will be stricken as a multi-sponsor from the records of the Revision Clerk. The printed bill, however, shall not be reprinted. d. Senators and Senators-elect may multi-sponsor bills that have been pre-filed and bills introduced after the opening of each legislative session upon the following conditions: (1) After a bill has been introduced and printed and before it has been reported favorably out of the Committee to which it was referred, any Senator or Senators may file with the Revision Clerk a request on a form provided to become a multi-sponsor of such bill. Such forms must be signed by the multi-sponsor. (2) Such bill shall not be reprinted solely for the purpose of adding or deleting names of multi-sponsors. (3) Any Senator, having become a multi-sponsor of a bill, may withdraw from such by filing a request on a form provided to the Revision Clerk requesting that his or her name be stricken as a multi-sponsor from the record. (4) Any Senator who has become a multi-sponsor of a bill in the manner set forth herein shall have the right to distribute such bill bearing an endorsement by rubber stamp or otherwise the words "multi-sponsored by" and insert his or her own name as multi-sponsor.