This joint rules resolution modifies legislative processes and procedures.
This resolution:
- defines terms;
- removes the requirement that the Senate and House Rules committees meet annually to review joint rules;
- addresses the process to direct a roll call vote during an electronic meeting;
- modifies legislative staff offices' reporting requirement related to performance measures;
- requires the Executive Appropriations Committee to meet annually to approve legislative staff offices' budgets and certify the Legislature's budget to the governor;
- addresses the right of legislators to attend joint committee meetings, subject to certain restrictions;
- clarifies how requests for legislation, priority request designations, and legislation are treated when the chief sponsor is:unable to serve in the next annual general session; orelected or appointed to serve in the opposite chamber;
- addresses the circumstances under which the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel removes a committee note;
- clarifies the order in which the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel numbers legislation;
- clarifies the days of the week the Senate and House give preference for the other chamber's legislation;
- prohibits transferring sponsorship on legislation more than once;
- modifies the consideration of an amendment or substitute legislation made in the other chamber;
- modifies deadlines related to the passage of the final appropriations bill and fiscal note bills;
- clarifies reimbursement procedures related to legislative travel;
- requires that when a legislative committee creates a subcommittee, the members must include at least one senator and one representative;
- authorizes the chairs of the Legislative Process Committee and the Rules Review and General Oversight Committee to independently open a committee bill file, subject to certain requirements;
- prohibits the chief sponsor of a committee bill from altering the bill before the bill is numbered for introduction, except altering to make a technical correction; and
- makes technical and conforming changes.