House Journal: Page 334: Wednesday, February 7, 2001
12 or the president of the senate refers the rule to a
13 standing committee, the standing committee shall
14 review the rule within twenty-one days of the referral
15 and shall take formal committee action by sponsoring a
16 joint resolution to disapprove the rule, by proposing
17 legislation relating to the rule, or by refusing to
18 propose a joint resolution or legislation concerning
19 the rule. The standing committee shall inform the
20 administrative rules review committee of the committee
21 action taken concerning the rule.
22 Rule 20
23 Time of Committee Passage and Consideration of Bills
24 1. This rule does not apply to concurrent or
25 simple resolutions, joint resolutions nullifying
26 administrative rules, senate confirmations, bills
27 embodying redistricting plans prepared by the
28 legislative service bureau pursuant to chapter 42, or
29 bills passed by both houses in different forms.
30 Subsection 2 of this rule does not apply to
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1 appropriations bills, ways and means bills, legalizing
2 acts, administrative rules review committee bills,
3 bills sponsored by standing committees in response to
4 a referral from the president of the senate or the
5 speaker of the house of representatives relating to an
6 administrative rule whose effective date has been
7 delayed until the adjournment of the next regular
8 session of the general assembly by the administrative
9 rules review committee, bills cosponsored by majority
10 and minority floor leaders of one house, bills in
11 conference committee, and companion bills sponsored by
12 the majority floor leaders of both houses after
13 consultation with the respective minority floor
14 leaders. For the purposes of this rule, a joint
15 resolution is considered as a bill. To be considered
16 an appropriations or ways and means bill for the
17 purposes of this rule, the appropriations committee or
18 the ways and means committee must either be the
19 sponsor of the bill or the committee of first referral
20 in the originating house.
21 2. To be placed on the calendar in the house of
22 origin, a bill must be first reported out of the a
23 standing committee of first referral by Friday of the
24 9th 10th week of the first session and the 7th 8th
25 week of the second session. To be placed on the
26 calendar in the other house, a bill must be first
27 reported out of the a standing committee of first
28 referral by Friday of the 12th 13th week of the first
29 session and the 10th 11th week of the second session.
30 3. During the 10th 11th week of the first session
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