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General Assembly House Joint
Resolution No. 28
February Session, 2020
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Referred to Committee on No Committee
Introduced by:
REP. ARESIMOWICZ, 30
th
Dist.
REP. RITTER M., 1
st
Dist.
REP. KLARIDES, 114
th
Dist.
SEN. LOONEY, 11
th
Dist.
SEN. DUFF, 25
th
Dist.
SEN. FASANO, 34
th
Dist.
RESOLUTION TO AMEND THE JOINT RULES OF THE SENATE AND
THE HOUSE OF REPRESE NTATIVES.
Resolved by this Assembly:
That subsection (a) of Joint Rule 15 of Senate Joint Resolution 1 of the 1
2019 regular session is amended to read as follows: 2
"(a) Deadline for Favorable Reports. The deadline for committees to 3
vote to report favorably and submit bills, except conveyance bills, and 4
resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution and other 5
substantive resolutions to the Legislative Commissioners' Office shall be 6
5:00 p.m. on the dates designated in the following schedule: 7
T1 Committee 2019 2020
T2 Aging March 12 March [12] 17
T3 Children March 12 March [12] 17
T4 Housing March 12 March [12] 17
T5 Veterans' Affairs March 14 March [12] 17
T6 Banking March 14 March [19] 24
T7 Commerce March 19 March [19] 24
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T1 Committee 2019 2020
T8 Higher Education and Employment March 19 March [17] 20
T9 Advancement
T10 Legislative Management March 20 March [16] 19
T11 Public Safety and Security March 21 March [17] 20
T12 Insurance and Real Estate March 21 March [19] 24
T13 Energy and Technology March 21 March [24] 27
T14 Transportation March 25 March [20] 25
T15 General Law March 26 March [17] 20
T16 Labor and Public Employees March 26 March [24] 27
T17 Human Services March 28 March [26] 31
T18 Environment March 29 March [25] 30
T19 Education April 1 March [23] 26
T20 Planning and Development April 1 March [23] 26
T21 Public Health April 3 [March 27] April 1
T22 Government Administration and April 3 March [25] 30
T23 Elections
T24 Judiciary April 12 [March 30] April 2
T25 Finance, Revenue and Bonding May 2 [April 2] April 7
T26 Appropriations May 3 [April 3] April 8"
That subsection (c) of Joint Rule 13 of Senate Joint Resolution 1 of the 8
2019 regular session is amended to read as follows: 9
"(c) Deadline. (1) Unless the President Pro Tempore and the Speaker 10
consent, in writing, to a request by a legislative commissioner for an 11
extension of time, the Legislative Commissioners' Office shall complete 12
its examination of the bill or resolution within ten calendar days, 13
excluding holidays, after its receipt, except the Legislative 14
Commissioners' Office shall complete its examination of a conveyance 15
bill within five calendar days, excluding holidays, after its receipt. If the 16
bill or resolution is approved by a commissioner, the commissioner shall 17
notify the Office of Fiscal Analysis and the Office of Legislative Research 18
of the approval and, if a substitute, furnish each office with a copy of the 19
bill or resolution for preparation of a fiscal note and bill analysis. Unless 20
the President Pro Tempore and the Speaker consent, in writing, to a 21
request by the director of the Office of Fiscal Analysis or the director of 22
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the Office of Legislative Research for an extension of time, a legislative 23
commissioner shall transmit the bill or resolution with his or her 24
approval to the clerk of the chamber in which it originated within five 25
calendar days, excluding holidays, after such notice. 26
(2) Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (1) of this 27
subsection, for any bill or resolution received by the Legislative 28
Commissioners' Office after March 1, 2020, and prior to March 17, 2020, 29
the Legislative Commissioners' Office shall (A) complete its 30
examination not later than three business days after the applicable 31
period specified for such examination in subdivision (1) of this 32
subsection; and (B) transmit the bill or resolution with his or her 33
approval to the clerk of the chamber in which it originated not later than 34
three business days after the period specified for such transmittal in 35
subdivision (1) of this subsection." 36
That subsection (c) of Joint Rule 5 of Senate Joint Resolution 1 of the 37
2019 regular session is amended to read as follows: 38
"(c) Conduct of Meetings. (1) A chairperson or a vice chairperson shall 39
convene all meetings. If a meeting, other than a meeting on the day of 40
the committee's deadline to report bills and resolutions, as provided in 41
Rule 15, is not so convened within fifteen minutes following its 42
scheduled starting time, the meeting shall be deemed cancelled. In all 43
meetings of joint committees, and at all public hearings held by such 44
committees, the Senate and House chairpersons shall mutually agree as 45
to who shall preside and in the absence of agreement the Senate 46
chairperson and the House chairperson shall alternately preside. A 47
chairperson shall recognize each member wishing to be heard prior to 48
ordering the vote on the final question of a favorable or unfavorable 49
report, a favorable change of reference or the boxing of a bill or 50
resolution. All questions of order, hearings and other proceedings 51
including the raising of bills or resolutions and questions relating to 52
evidence shall be determined by a majority of votes but, if the majority 53
of the committee members present of either chamber so request, the 54
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committee members of each chamber shall separately determine all 55
questions. A vote of a committee may be reconsidered only at the next 56
regular meeting of the committee, except that any vote on the day of the 57
committee's deadline to report bills and resolutions as provided in Rule 58
15, may be reconsidered at the same meeting not later than 5:00 p.m. 59
(2) During a declaration of a public health emergency, members may 60
vote at meetings by telephone or other means of voice communication." 61