SF 1457

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to the legislature; establishing a schedule 
  1.3             for meeting and consideration of bills; forbidding 
  1.4             meetings of the legislature in even-numbered years; 
  1.5             amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 3.011. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 3.011, is 
  1.8   amended to read: 
  1.9      3.011 [SESSIONS.] 
  1.10     Committees of the legislature shall meet at the seat of 
  1.11  government on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in 
  1.12  January of each odd-numbered year.  When the first Monday in 
  1.13  January falls on January 1, it shall meet on the first Wednesday 
  1.14  after the first Monday.  The legislature shall meet on the first 
  1.15  Tuesday in February.  It shall also meet when called by the 
  1.16  governor to meet in special session.  Budget and bonding bills 
  1.17  must be introduced before the legislature begins to meet in 
  1.18  February and must be passed out of committee and sent to the 
  1.19  floor of each house of the legislature before committees may 
  1.20  begin consideration of policy bills.  The legislature may not 
  1.21  meet in regular session or adjournment of regular session after 
  1.22  March 31 of an odd-numbered year or in an even-numbered year.  
  1.23  With the permission of the speaker of the house of 
  1.24  representatives and the president of the senate, committees may 
  1.25  meet in an even-numbered year to consider and take testimony on 
  2.1   issues within their jurisdictions.  Conference committees must 
  2.2   begin to meet no later than two weeks before the end of a 
  2.3   session.