Rule 76. Upon objection by any Representative or Representative-elect, no Representative-elect shall be given the oath of office or be permitted to be seated as a Member if he or she fails to meet any of the qualifications for office. (See, e.g., Const 1963, Art 4 § 7) Upon a finding by a majority vote of the Members elected and serving in the House that such Representative-elect fails to meet any of the qualifications for office, that person shall be declared to be not qualified for membership in the House, and the office shall be declared vacant. The question of a Member’s qualifications shall be presented only by a Member.
CHAPTER VIII
Equally Divided House.
Rule 77. If at any time during the One Hundred Third Legislature there are 55 Members duly elected and serving as Democrats as evidenced by the party he or she represented on the general or special election ballot from which he or she was elected to the One Hundred Third Legislature, and 55 Members duly elected and serving as Republicans as evidenced by the party he or she represented on the general or special election ballot from which he or she was elected to the One Hundred Third Legislature, then the House of Representatives shall proceed with the election of a Speaker and other officers provided for in Rule 1 by at least 56 votes.
The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
The resolution was adopted.
Reps. Posthumus and Fitzgerald offered the following resolution:
House Resolution No. 2.
A resolution to provide for Rachelle Smit to be Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Third Legislature.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, That Rachelle Smit is elected to the office of Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Third Legislature.
The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
The resolution was adopted, a majority of the members present voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows: