Bill Text: IA SR6 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A resolution amending the permanent rules of the senate for the eighty-seventh general assembly relating to formal requests for the drafting of bills.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-02 - Resolution adopted. S.J. 206. [SR6 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SR6-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution 6 - Introduced

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                    SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
              BY  COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
  1  1 A Resolution amending the permanent rules of the senate
  1  2    for the eighty=seventh general assembly relating to
  1  3    formal requests for the drafting of bills.
  1  4    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That Rule 27,
  1  5 unnumbered paragraph 1, of the permanent rules of
  1  6 the senate, as adopted by the Senate during the 2017
  1  7 Session in Senate Resolution 3, is amended to read as
  1  8 follows:
  1  9    No bill or joint resolution, except bills and
  1 10 joint resolutions cosponsored by the majority and
  1 11 minority floor leaders, or companion bills and joint
  1 12 resolutions sponsored by the majority floor leaders of
  1 13 both houses, shall be introduced in the senate after
  1 14 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the fourth fifth week of the
  1 15 first regular session of a general assembly unless a
  1 16 formal request for drafting the bill has been filed
  1 17 with the legislative services agency before that time.
  1 18 After adjournment of the first regular session, bills
  1 19 may be prefiled at any time before the convening of the
  1 20 second regular session. No bill shall be introduced
  1 21 after 4:30 p.m. on Friday of the second week of the
  1 22 second regular session of a general assembly unless a
  1 23 formal request for drafting the bill has been filed
  1 24 with the legislative services agency before that time.
  1 25 However, standing committees may introduce bills and
  1 26 joint resolutions at any time. A bill which relates
  1 27 to departmental rules sponsored by the administrative
  1 28 rules review committee and approved by a majority
  2  1 of the members of the committee in each house may
  2  2 be introduced at any time and must be referred to a
  2  3 standing committee which must take action on the bill
  2  4 within three weeks. Senate and concurrent resolutions
  2  5 may be introduced at any time.
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