House Journal: Page 131: Wednesday, January 20, 1999

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 1  appropriations and ways and means committees.
 2     If, on or after July 1, 1999, the administrative
 3  rules review committee delays the effective date of a
 4  rule until the adjournment of the next regular session
 5  of the general assembly and the speaker of the house
 6  or the president of the senate refers the rule to a
 7  standing committee, the standing committee shall
 8  review the rule within twenty-one days of the referral
 9  and shall take formal committee action by sponsoring a
10  joint resolution to disapprove the rule, by proposing
11  legislation relating to the rule, or by refusing to
12  propose a joint resolution or legislation concerning
13  the rule.  The standing committee shall inform the
14  administrative rules review committee of the committee
15  action taken concerning the rule.
16                               Rule 20
17   Time of Committee Passage and Consideration of Bills
18     1.  This rule does not apply to concurrent or
19  simple resolutions, joint resolutions nullifying
20  administrative rules, senate confirmations, or bills
21  passed by both houses in different forms.  Subsection
22  2 of this rule does not apply to appropriations bills,
23  ways and means bills, legalizing acts, administrative
24  rules review committee bills, bills cosponsored by
25  majority and minority floor leaders of one house,
26  bills in conference committee, and companion bills
27  sponsored by the majority floor leaders of both houses
28  after consultation with the respective minority floor
29  leaders.  For the purposes of this rule, a joint
30  resolution is considered as a bill.  To be considered
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 1  an appropriations or ways and means bill for the
 2  purposes of this rule, the appropriations committee or
 3  the ways and means committee must either be the
 4  sponsor of the bill or the committee of first referral
 5  in the originating house.
 6     2.  To be placed on the calendar in the house of
 7  origin, a bill must be first reported out of the
 8  committee of first referral by Friday of the 9th week
 9  of the first session and the 7th week of the second
10  session.  To be placed on the calendar in the other
11  house, a bill must be first reported out of the
12  committee of first referral by Friday of the 12th week
13  of the first session and the 10th week of the second
14  session.
15     3.  During the 10th week of the first session and
16  the 8th week of the second session, each house shall
17  consider only bills originating in that house and
18  unfinished business.  During the 13th week of the
19  first session and the 11th week of the second session,

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