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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0860.01 DLC

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATORS Coffman and Matsunaka.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-011

CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF BILLS A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY INTRODUCE IN A REGULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

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

That Joint Rule No. 24 (b) (1) (A) of the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives is amended to read:

24. SPONSORSHIP OF BILLS

(b) (1) (A) A member of the General Assembly may not introduce more than five FOUR bills in a regular session of the General Assembly excluding bills for appropriations and excluding the bills specified in subparagraph (D) of this paragraph (1). Permission to exceed the limits established by this rule may be given by the Senate Committee on Delayed Bills for members of the Senate and the House Committee on Delayed Bills for members of the House of Representatives. IN ADDITION TO THE APPROVAL BY THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE ON DELAYED BILLS, A MEMBER MUST ALSO OBTAIN PERMISSION TO EXCEED THE LIMITS FROM TWO­THIRDS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE HOUSE. Of the bills which are subject to the five­bill FOUR­BILL limit under this subparagraph (A), not more than two bills ONE BILL may be requested after the December 1 which precedes the convening of the regular session except that any member who will serve in the regular session in an odd­numbered year but who is not a member of the current General Assembly may not introduce more than two bills ONE BILL requested after the December 15 which precedes the convening of said odd­year session. Bills requested on or before said December 1 or December 15, as the case may be, shall be treated as if requested to be prefiled bills, unless the member making the request specifies otherwise.