1.1A Senate concurrent resolution
1.2relating to Joint Rules; providing a fourth deadline for conference committees to act
1.3favorably on major appropriation and finance bills; amending Joint Rule 2.03.
1.4BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Minnesota, the House of Representatives
1.5concurring:
1.6Joint Rule 2.03 is amended to read:
1.7DEADLINES
1.82.03
1.9The Legislature shall establish by concurrent resolution deadlines for each regular session.
1.10The deadlines do not apply to the House committees on Capital Investment, Ways and Means,
1.11Finance, Taxes, or Rules and Legislative Administration, nor to the Senate committees on Capital
1.12Investment, Finance, Taxes, or Rules and Administration.
1.13The first deadline is for committees to act favorably on bills in the house of origin.
1.14The second deadline is for committees to act favorably on bills, or companions of bills, that
1.15met the first deadline in the other house.
1.16A committee has until the second deadline to act favorably on a bill, or the companion of a
1.17bill, that by the first deadline was referred to a finance committee. The deadline for a committee
1.18of either house to act on a bill that has been recommended favorably by the Legislative Commission
1.19on Pensions and Retirement is the second committee deadline. The major appropriation bills are
1.20exempt from the first two deadlines.
1.21The third deadline is for committees to act favorably on major appropriation and finance
1.22bills.
1.23The fourth deadline is for conference committees to act favorably on major appropriation
1.24and finance bills, including any omnibus bill that is a combination of major appropriation and
2.1finance bills. All conference committee reports subject to this deadline shall be posted electronically
2.2within 48 hours following favorable action by a conference committee.
2.3When a committee in either house acts favorably on a bill after a deadline established in the
2.4concurrent resolution, the bill must be referred in the Senate to the Committee on Rules and
2.5Administration and in the House of Representatives to the Committee on Rules and Legislative
2.6Administration for disposition. Either rules committee, when reporting a bill referred to the committee
2.7under this rule, may waive application of the rule to subsequent actions on that bill by other
2.8committees.
2.9All bills necessary to implement the governor's budget submitted by a state agency or
2.10department must be made available for introduction within 15 calendar days after the governor's
2.11budget was submitted. A bill introduced after that date must be referred to the Committee on Rules
2.12and Administration in the Senate or the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration in the
2.13House of Representatives and may not be heard without the approval of that committee.