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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98-0902.01 CWP

STATE OF COLORADO




BY REPRESENTATIVE Anderson;

also SENATOR Wells.

ENGROSSED

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-1024


WHEREAS, Section 2-2-303.5, Colorado Revised Statutes, authorizes the General Assembly to designate the convening date for regular sessions by joint resolution; and

WHEREAS, During the previous legislative session, Joint Rule No. 23, concerning the legislative deadline schedule was amended to change several deadlines to accommodate concerns relating to the processing of bills during that session, an odd-numbered year; and

WHEREAS, One of these changes also impacted the deadlines for sessions held in even-numbered years, but a conforming amendment was not made; and

WHEREAS, The general assembly has conducted the current legislative session under the assumption that the conforming amendment had been made; now, therefore,

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

1.  That pursuant to section 2-2-303.5, Colorado Revised Statutes, the General Assembly designates Wednesday, January 6, 1999, as the convening date for the First Regular Session of the Sixty-second General Assembly.

2.  That the action of the House of Representatives in not adopting several Senate Bills until it completes work on the Long Appropriation Bill is hereby validated. This action was based on the assumption that the deadline for passage of Senate Bills in the House of Representatives would have been moved to a date following the deadline for the House to act on the Long Appropriation Bill. This change should have been made to be consistent with the extension by one week of the deadline for Committees of Reference to act on bills originating in the opposite house from the 66th day to the 73rd day.

3.  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.

30th day

Deadline for House committees of reference to report House bills introduced on or before the 6th legislative day.*

37th day

Deadline for Senate committees of reference to report Senate Bills.*



38th day

Deadline for House committees of reference to report House Bills.*

44th day

Deadline for House committees of reference to report remaining House bills.*

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.*

Deadline for final passage of House bills in the 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*.


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.*

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


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.


101st day

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

108th day

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

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.