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First Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R97@0679.01 CWP

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Wells;

also REPRESENTATIVE Anderson.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 97-7

CONCERNING THE LEGISLATIVE DEADLINE SCHEDULE.

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

That Joint Rule No. 23 (a) (1) of the Joint Rules of the Senate and the House of Representatives is amended to read:

23. DEADLINE SCHEDULE

(a) (1) Deadline schedule. For the purposes of organizing the legislative session, the schedule for the enactment of legislation shall be as follows:


5 days prior to 1st day
Deadline for filing one of each member's three bills requested prior to December 1 or December 15 pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection (a) and Joint Rule 24 (b) (1) (A) with the house of introduction for printing, distribution to Legislative Council staff for preparation of fiscal notes, and introduction on the 1st day.

1st day
Deadline for the introduction of the bills required to be filed 5 days prior to the 1st day.

3rd day
Deadline for introduction of the two remaining Senate bills requested prior to December 1 or December 15 pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection (a) and Joint Rule 24 (b) (1) (A).

6th day
Deadline for introduction of the two remaining house bills requested prior to December 1 or December 15 pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection (a) and Joint Rule 24 (b) (1) (A).

Deadline for bill draft requests to the Office of Legislative Legal Services.


17th day
Final deadline for introduction of Senate bills, except the long appropriation bill. No Senate bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or before the twelfth legislative day shall be introduced more than five legislative days after such delivery. Any Senate bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or after the thirteenth legislative day shall be introduced not later than the seventeenth legislative day.

22nd day
Final deadline for introduction of House bills, except the long appropriation bill. No House bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or before the seventeenth legislative day shall be introduced more than five legislative days after such delivery. Any House bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or after the eighteenth legislative day shall be introduced not later than the twenty­second legislative day.

23rd day
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, for the First Regular Session in 1997 only, the deadline for introduction of House bills, except the long appropriation bill, shall be the 23rd day, Thursday, January 30. No House bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or before the eighteenth legislative day shall be introduced more than five legislative days after such delivery. Any House bill delivered by the Office of Legislative Legal Services on or after the nineteenth legislative day shall be introduced not later than the twenty­third legislative day. This paragraph is repealed, effective May 8, 1997.

31st day
Deadline for Senate committees of reference to report Senate bills.*

37th day
Deadline for Senate committees of reference to report Senate bills.*

38th day
Deadline for House committees of reference to report House bills.*

41st day
Deadline for final passage of Senate bills in the Senate.*

48th day
Deadline for final passage of House bills in the House of Representatives.*

50th day
Deadline for final passage of Senate bills in the Senate.*

66th day
Deadline for committees of reference to report bills originating in the other house.*

73rd day
Deadline for committees of reference to report bills originating in the other house.*

76th day
Deadline for introduction of the long appropriation bill in the house of origin which shall be the House of Representatives in even-numbered years and the Senate in odd-numbered years; and

Deadline in even-numbered years for final passage in the House of Representatives of all bills originating in the Senate.*


80th day
Deadline for final passage of the long appropriation bill in the house of origin.

83rd day
Deadline in even­numbered years for final passage in the Senate of all bills originating in the House of Representatives*.

Deadline in odd­numbered years for final passage in the House of Representatives of all bills originating in the Senate*; and

Deadline in odd-numbered years for final passage in the Senate of all bills originating in the House of Representatives.*




87th day
Deadline for final passage of the long appropriation bill in the second house; and

Deadline for final passage, including any conference committee report, for any bill prescribing all or a substantial portion of the total funding for public schools pursuant to the APublic School Finance Act of 1994@, Article 54 of Title 22, Colorado Revised Statutes.


90th day
Deadline in odd-numbered years for final passage in the Senate of all bills originating in the House of Representatives and for final passage in the House of Representatives of all bills originating in the Senate.*

92nd day
Deadline for Appropriations Committee in house of introduction to report bills referred to Appropriations Committee.

94th day
Deadline for adoption of the conference committee report on the long appropriation bill.

Deadline for Appropriations Committee in house of introduction to report bills referred to Appropriations Committee.


99th day
Deadline for final passage in house of introduction of all bills referred to Appropriations Committee in that house.

101st day
Deadline for final passage in house of introduction of all bills referred to Appropriations Committee in that house.

106th day
Deadline for Appropriations Committee in second house to report bills referred to Appropriations Committee.

108th day
Deadline for Appropriations Committee in second house to report bills referred to Appropriations Committee.

111th day
Deadline for final passage in second house of all bills referred to Appropriations Committee in that house.

113th day
Deadline for final passage in second house of all bills referred to Appropriations Committee in that house.

118th day
If there has been adjournment to a day certain, reconvene for adjournment sine die unless the joint resolution for adjournment to a day certain specifies another day for reconvening.

* All bills in the Appropriations Committee in either house on the day of the asterisked deadline are excluded from these deadlines.