§ 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.