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House Rules committee approves joint rules changes after questions on deadlines and veto timing
Summary
Sen. Tom McGillivray presented updates to the joint rules, including sponsor authority over legal notes, conference-committee membership, and transmittal-date adjustments; the committee approved Senate Joint Resolution 1 by voice vote with Representative Sullivan recorded as opposed.
Sen. Tom McGillivray, presenting Senate Joint Resolution 1, told the House Rules Committee that the proposed joint rules are "nearly the exact same thing you've been operating under" and highlighted a set of substantive clarifications and procedural tweaks. He listed changes including authority for a sponsor to request revision of legal notes, a requirement that a bill sponsor be on any conference committee for that bill, limits on who may remove cosponsors in each chamber, and an explicit rule on how veto messages are received and timestamped.
The changes also move several transmittal dates and, as McGillivray put it, "we bumped those 2 days," affecting general bills, joint…
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