9.03 DEADLINES. A bill prepared by a department or agency of state government shall be introduced and given its first reading in regular session no later than ten days before the date of the first committee deadline specified in this rule.
In regular session in 1997, committee reports on House files favorably acted upon by a committee after Wednesday, March 26, and committee reports on Senate files favorably acted upon by a committee after Wednesday, April 9, shall be referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration for disposition. In regular session in 1998, committee reports on House files favorably acted upon by a committee after Friday, February 13, committee reports on Senate files favorably acted upon by a committee after Friday, February 20, shall be referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration for disposition. However, referral is not required after the first deadline when, by the second deadline, a committee acts on a bill that is a companion to a bill that has then been acted upon by the first deadline in the Senate. A finance or revenue bill referred to in Rule 5.08 is exempt from the first and second deadlines.
A finance bill other than a major finance or revenue bill referred to in Rule 5.12 in finance committees and standing committees with finance divisions and the Committee on Taxes, that includes provisions that create or reestablish a commission, board, task force, advisory committee or council, or other entity, shall be re-referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration if it remains in committee after the deadlines set by this rule.
In regular session in 1997, notice of intention to move reconsideration shall not be in order after Monday, April 14. In regular session in 1998, notice of intention to move reconsideration shall not be in order after Monday, March 2.
Committee reports on finance bills that are favorably acted upon by a committee after Friday, April 18, in regular session in 1997, and after Friday, February 27, in regular session in 1998, shall be referred to the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration for disposition. This deadline does not apply to the House Committees on Capital Investment, Taxes, and Ways and Means.
In Regular session in 1997 after Friday, May 2, and in regular session in 1998 after Friday, March 20, the House shall not act on bills other than those recommended by conference committee reports, the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, or the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration, or the Committee on Ways and Means, and those bills contained in messages from the Senate or from the Governor.
In regular session in 1997 except after Monday, May 12, and in regular session in 1998 except after Monday, March 23, a written copy of a report of a conference committee shall be placed on the desk of each member of the House 24 hours before action on the report by the House. If the report has been reprinted in the Journal of the House for a preceding day and is available to the members, the Journal copy shall serve as the written report.