Senate Resolution 6 - Introduced SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 6 BY COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION A Resolution amending the permanent rules of the senate 1 for the eighty-seventh general assembly relating to 2 formal requests for the drafting of bills. 3 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That Rule 27, 4 unnumbered paragraph 1, of the permanent rules of 5 the senate, as adopted by the Senate during the 2017 6 Session in Senate Resolution 3, is amended to read as 7 follows: 8 No bill or joint resolution, except bills and 9 joint resolutions cosponsored by the majority and 10 minority floor leaders, or companion bills and joint 11 resolutions sponsored by the majority floor leaders of 12 both houses, shall be introduced in the senate after 13 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the fourth fifth week of the 14 first regular session of a general assembly unless a 15 formal request for drafting the bill has been filed 16 with the legislative services agency before that time. 17 After adjournment of the first regular session, bills 18 may be prefiled at any time before the convening of the 19 second regular session. No bill shall be introduced 20 after 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the second week of the 21 second regular session of a general assembly unless a 22 formal request for drafting the bill has been filed 23 with the legislative services agency before that time. 24 However, standing committees may introduce bills and 25 joint resolutions at any time. A bill which relates 26 to departmental rules sponsored by the administrative 27 rules review committee and approved by a majority 28 -1- LSB 2331SV (1) 87 rj/nh 1/ 2