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Definition of Second reading
1. Noun. The second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Second Reading
Literary usage of Second reading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"Bill withdrawn. SALMON AND FRESHWATER FISHERIES BILL. Order for second reading
read, and discharged. Bill withdrawn. JUDICATURE (IRELAND) BILL. ..."
2. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1920)
"The Senate proceeded to the second reading and consideration of Senate bill No.
211, entitled "An act making an appropriation to Saint John's Orphan Asylum, ..."
3. Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of by Luther Stearns Cushing (1866)
"The second reading, as has been seen, may take place immediately on being ...
The proceedings preliminary to the second reading, when no time is fixed ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"I move the second reading. Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2V—(Lord Avebury.)
THE LORD CHANCELLOR (The Earl of HALSBURY) : My Lords, I must say that it ..."
5. Journal by Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate (1916)
"Ordered, To be laid aside for second reading. Agreeably to order, The Senate
proceeded to the first reading and consideration of Senate bill No. ..."
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