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Rules committee adopts April 23 calendar and requires prefiling for amendments
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Summary
The Rules and Legislative Administration Committee approved minutes from April 15, adopted the calendar for the April 23 floor session listing multiple House and Senate files, and set a prefiling requirement for amendments to those bills; a member asked for clearer guidance about which House rules will apply on the floor.
The Rules and Legislative Administration Committee met April 21 and approved the minutes from its April 15 meeting before adopting the calendar for the April 23 floor session and establishing a prefiling requirement for amendments to those bills.
The chair moved approval of the April 15 minutes with an oral amendment to correct the spellings of Representative Frederick and Representative Steer; Representative Niska noted that Representative Zalesnikar’s name was spelled correctly. “Aye,” the committee responded, and the minutes were adopted.
The chair then presented the proposed calendar for Thursday, April 23 and moved its adoption under House rules 1.21 and 3.33, listing the bills the committee proposes for the floor, including House Files 1606 (Hanson J.), 3766 (Perryman), 4052 (Kreisha), 4502 (Perryman), 4188 (Kegel), 3875 (Liebling), 3970 (Mueller), 3404 (Cleburne), 4075 (Scott), 3155 (Tabke), 3958 (Senate File 3958, Johnson), 3622 (Senate File 3622, Feist) and House File 3908 (Craft). The chair also said the committee would establish a prefiling requirement for any amendments offered to those bills.
Representative Niska urged members to support the calendar, saying, “Thank you, mister chair. I urge members' support.” Representative Coulter asked for clarification about which House rules would apply during floor debate and suggested the committee do more to explain “what house rules do and don't apply when we're debating bills on the floor,” calling that the “source of confusion.”
After a brief exchange, the committee adopted the calendar by voice vote; the transcript records ‘‘aye’’ and no opposition. The chair designated Thursday, April 23, for adoption of the calendar and closed the meeting.
The action sets the floor agenda and imposes a prefiling requirement for amendments to the listed bills; the transcript does not record roll-call vote counts or a recorded roll-call for either the minutes approval or the calendar adoption.
