Nope. Rules adopted at one convention do not automatically carry forward to the next. Each convention must adopt its own rules.
Priebus told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday that "it's probably unlikely that you see major changes" as a whole when the RNC rules committee meets, but "the 2012 rules were written by the 2012 delegates, who were bound to Mitt Romney.""And so Mitt Romney's rules of 2012 will not be the rules that apply to the 2016 convention, which will be made largely of Trump and Cruz delegates," he said. "And why would people want the Romney delegates' rules to apply to Cruz and Trump and Kasich? It doesn't make any sense. So the rules committee will come together; those delegates will get on these committees; they'll review the rules and the 2016 rules will apply to the 2016 convention."
For all the world, it sounds to me like they CHANGE the rules that are in place. So they arrive and the old rules are at that point IN PLACE and are the rules that are eligible to be changed.
Tell me that Priebus isn't saying that. Tell me he's instead saying that they arrive, that there are NO RULES AT ALL, and that they create an entirely new document from scratch.