General Assembly Standing Rules Relating to Public Hearings

Time Limits for Presentations

b. The committee may limit the time for the presentation by any person during a public hearing, including an elected member or staff member of an entity of the General Assembly. If the time allotted for the public hearing is not sufficient to accommodate all the persons wishing to speak, a method shall be approved by the assembly committee that ensures that an equal number of persons on each side of an issue have an opportunity to speak. Any person denied the right to speak at the hearing may appeal to the Assembly Committee on Bills and Overtures on the basis that the method employed in selecting speakers was not fair.

Special Note: The Assembly Committee on Business Referral has established a two-minute limit per speaker for all statements offered in Public Hearings for GA225. The process for establishing whether the number of requests received to speak to specific items of business exceeds the allotted time for each committee's public hearing during this Assembly are set out in the next resource in this section, "The Public Hearings Process for GA225."