House rules committee hears competing views on bill limits in HB 4,002

House Speaker Julie Fahey urged the House Committee on Rules to approve House Bill 4,002, saying the measure would restore clarity and allow the Legislature to focus on proposals that deserve public scrutiny. "In the 2025 legislative session, a total of 5,475 bills and resolutions were drafted by legislative counsel. And 3,466 were introduced," Fahey told the committee in support of the Dash 4 amendment, adding that only "702 of those bills passed through both chambers." The Dash 4 amendment sets new numerical limits, including allowing individual legislators to request up to 30 measures, setting most deadline-bound committees at 10 requests (with five additional bipartisan requests), exempting Ways and Means, and capping executive-branch requests at 100.