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House Journal: Page 105: Thursday, January 23, 1997

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 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the 2nd week of the
29  second regular session of the general assembly unless
30  a written request for drafting the bill has been filed

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

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 1  sponsor of the bill or the committee of first referral
 2  in the house.
 3     2.  To be placed on the calendar in the house, a
 4  house bill must be first reported out of the committee
 5  of first referral by Friday of the 10th week of the
 6  first session and the 8th week of the second session.
 7  A senate bill must be first reported out of the
 8  committee of first referral in the house by Friday of
 9  the 13th week of the first session and the 11th week

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