House Journal: Page 358: Thursday, February 14, 2002
11 Rule 20
12 Time of Committee Passage and Consideration of Bills
13 1. This rule does not apply to concurrent or
14 simple resolutions, joint resolutions nullifying
15 administrative rules, senate confirmations, bills
16 embodying redistricting plans prepared by the
17 legislative service bureau pursuant to chapter 42, or
18 bills passed by both houses in different forms.
19 Subsection 2 of this rule does not apply to
20 appropriations bills, ways and means bills, legalizing
21 acts, administrative rules review committee bills,
22 bills sponsored by standing committees in response to
23 a referral from the president of the senate or the
24 speaker of the house of representatives relating to an
25 administrative rule whose effective date has been
26 delayed until the adjournment of the next regular
27 session of the general assembly by the administrative
28 rules review committee, bills cosponsored by majority
29 and minority floor leaders of one house, bills in
30 conference committee, and companion bills sponsored by
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1 the majority floor leaders of both houses after
2 consultation with the respective minority floor
3 leaders. For the purposes of this rule, a joint
4 resolution is considered as a bill. To be considered
5 an appropriations or ways and means bill for the
6 purposes of this rule, the appropriations committee or
7 the ways and means committee must either be the
8 sponsor of the bill or the committee of first referral
9 in the originating house.
10 2. To be placed on the calendar in the house of
11 origin, a bill must be first reported out of a
12 standing committee by Friday of the 10th week of the
13 first session and the 8th 6th week of the second
14 session. To be placed on the calendar in the other
15 house, a bill must be first reported out of a standing
16 committee by Friday of the 13th week of the first
17 session and the 11th 9th week of the second session.
18 3. During the 11th week of the first session and
19 the 9th 7th week of the second session, each house
20 shall consider only bills originating in that house
21 and unfinished business. During the 14th week of the
22 first session and the 12th 10th week of the second
23 session, each house shall consider only bills
24 originating in the other house and unfinished
25 business. Beginning with the 15th week of the first
26 session and the 13th 11th week of the second session,
27 each house shall consider only bills passed by both
28 houses, bills exempt from subsection 2, and unfinished
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