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Rules committee adopts calendar for Feb. 27, imposes 24-hour prefiling for HF21 and HF72
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Summary
The Committee for Rules and Legislative Administration voted to adopt the day's calendar, designate Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, for floor consideration of several bills, and require 24-hour prefiling for amendments to House File 21 and House File 72; House File 289 was not subject to the prefiling rule.
The Committee for Rules and Legislative Administration voted to adopt the day's calendar and designate Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, for floor action, and set a 24-hour prefiling requirement for amendments to House File 21 and House File 72 while not applying that requirement to House File 289.
The action matters because the committee's use of rules determines which bills and amendments reach the House floor and under what timeline, affecting how quickly members can offer changes before debate.
Chair Nash moved "the adoption of the calendar for the day pursuant to rule 1.21 and 3.33," and the committee approved the motion by voice vote, with the chair announcing, "The motion prevails and the calendar is adopted." The motion also designated Thursday, Feb. 27 for adoption of the calendar for the day and established a 24-hour prefiling requirement for amendments to House File 21 and House File 72; the committee did not invoke the prefiling requirement for House File 289.
Representative Howard questioned whether calendaring House File 21 meant a similar bill by Representative Roach would not move forward, noting the two measures addressed the same topic and could conflict if both were enacted. Chair Nash (speaking for the committee) said House File 26 was in the Veterans Division of the State Government Finance Committee and had a hearing scheduled; the future of that bill was "unknown." Representative Quam, the author of House File 289, told the committee he opposed a prefiling requirement for his bill because of the bill's history: the measure would revive a program that previously passed and later sunsetted, and Quam said opposition had been limited in the bill's earlier enactment.
Representative Coulter asked for confirmation that rule 3.33 was not being applied to House File 289; the chair and Representative Quam explained that invocation of rule 3.33 is discretionary and that some authors decline prefiling requirements for tactical or historical reasons. The committee chair said the 24-hour prefiling requirement for amendments now applies to House File 21 and House File 72 only.
The meeting concluded after the voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
