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House Journal: Page 154: Tuesday, January 24, 1995

20  of the general assembly unless a written request for
21  drafting the bill has been filed with the legislative
22  service bureau before that time.
23     After adjournment of the first regular session,
24  bills may be prefiled at any time before the convening
25  of the second regular session.  No bill or joint
26  resolution under individual sponsorship, other than a
27  nullification resolution, shall be read for the first
28  time after 4:00 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the 2nd week
of
29  the second regular session of the general assembly
30  unless a written request for drafting the bill has

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 1  been filed with the legislative service bureau before
 2  that time.
 3     However, bills or joint resolutions sponsored by
 4  standing committees or the administrative rules review
 5  committee, co-sponsored by the majority and minority
 6  floor leaders, or companion bills sponsored by the
 7  house majority leader and the senate majority leader
 8  may be drafted and introduced at any time permissible
 9  under Joint Rule 20 29A.  House, concurrent, and
10  nullification resolutions may be introduced at any
11  time.
12	Rule 29A
13	Time of Committee Passage and
14 	 Consideration of Bills
15     1.  This rule does not apply to concurrent or
16  simple resolutions, joint resolutions nullifying
17  administrative rules, bills passed by both houses in
18  different forms, or bills or appropriation items on
19  the veto calendar.  Subsection 2 of this rule does not
20  apply to appropriations bills, ways and means bills,
21  legalizing acts, administrative rules review committee
22  bills, bills cosponsored by the majority and minority
23  floor leaders of the house, bills in conference
24  committee, and companion bills sponsored by the
25  majority floor leaders of both houses after
26  consultation with the respective minority floor
27  leaders.  For the purposes of this rule, a joint
28  resolution is considered as a bill.  To be considered
29  an appropriations or ways and means bill for the
30  purposes of this rule, the committee on appropriations

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 1  or the committee on ways and means must either be the
 2  sponsor of the bill or the committee of first referral
 3  in the house.
 4  2.  To be placed on the calendar in the house, a
 5  house bill must be first reported out of the committee
 6  of first referral by Friday of the 10th week of the
 7  first session and the 8th week of the second session.

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (76th General Assembly: Session 1)

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