Other changes to the chamber’s rules include less power for committee chairs and stricter regulation of constitutional amendments.
Zabel has yet to respond to the allegations.
Speaker Joanna McClinton abruptly ended rules debate and called a vote on the measure. It passed on party lines, with 102 Democratic votes. They make committees smaller, and give the minority party relatively more representation — from a 15-10 split in the majority’s favor to a 12-9 split. Republicans argued that the difference should be even smaller because the overall chamber is divided by just one vote; state House Majority Leader Matt Bradford called it a “compromise.
The rules also give members of the minority party a new right to call at least one testifier to committee hearings. They also allow remote voting; members will now be able to designate their caucus whip to vote for them on any bill, and any member voting by designation will be counted as present for the purposes of a quorum.
That power, which Democrats now hold after a dozen years in the minority, was on full display as the state House began debating the rules Wednesday and Democrats offered a resolution to ban amendments to their rules package.
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