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House Rules Committee approves resolution to shift bill‑drafting deadlines
Summary
The House Rules Committee approved a resolution to move several bill-drafting deadlines in the second year of the biennium — member request to Dec. 5, content-approval to Jan. 15, and approved-for-introduction to Jan. 31 — citing quality control, workload management and member service; the resolution will be introduced Jan. 6 and taken up Jan. 7.
The House Rules Committee voted to approve House Resolution 1, draft 2.2, adopting new calendar deadlines for bill drafting in the second year of the biennium.
Brynn Haire, director and chief counsel of Legislative Counsel, told the committee the proposal makes three targeted changes: move the member bill request deadline to Dec. 5; push the deadline to request changes to bill contents to Jan. 15; and set the deadline to have a bill "approved for introduction" (with cosponsors) to Jan. 31. "The proposal includes 3 changes 3 deadline changes," Haire said, and described the three goals as "quality control," "management of the volume of requests" and "member service."
Haire told members the office faces a concentrated workload in the weeks before the current deadlines. "Our office…
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