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the House concurring, that the Joint Rules of the 122nd Maine Legislature shall be the Joint Rules of the 123rd Maine Legislature, except for the following change.

Joint Rule 302 is deleted and the following inserted in its place:

Rule 302. Membership.

Each of the joint standing committees consists of 13 members, 3 from the Senate and 10 from the House of Representatives. The first Senate member named is the Senate chair. The first House member named is the House chair. The Senate chair shall preside and in the Senate chair's absence, the House chair shall preside and, thereafter, as the need may arise, the chair shall alternate between the members from each chamber in the sequence of their appointment to the committee. The sequence of appointment for the biennium is as announced by the presiding officers in each chamber. Every member of the Senate and the House of Representatives is entitled to at least one initial committee assignment. The percentage of total committee seats held by Senators of each political party must be equivalent to the percentage of seats in the Senate held by that party.’