2007 Legislative Calendar

Link to the official calendar.

1/10 Deadline for making REQUESTS for general bills and constitutional amendments to be drafted.***

1/15 Deadline for INTRODUCTION of bills and constitutional amendments.*

1/30 Deadline for COMMITTEES TO REPORT bills and constitutional amendments originating in OWN House.*+

2/8 Deadline for ORIGINAL FLOOR ACTION on bills and constitutional amendments originating in OWN House.*

2/9 Deadline for reconsideration and passage of bills and constitutional amendments originating in OWN House.*

2/12 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider bills and constitutional amendments originating in OWN House.*

2/21 Deadline for ORIGINAL FLOOR ACTION on APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OWN House.

2/22 Deadline for RECONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE OF APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OWN House.

2/23 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OWN House.

2/27 Deadline for COMMITTEES TO REPORT bills and constitutional amendments originating in OTHER House.*+

3/7 Deadline for ORIGINAL FLOOR ACTION on bills and constitutional amendments originating in OTHER House.*

3/8 Deadline for RECONSIDERATION AND PASSAGE of bills and constitutional amendments originating in OTHER House.*

3/9 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider bills and constitutional amendments originating in OTHER House.*

3/13 Deadline for ORIGINAL FLOOR ACTION on APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OTHER House.

3/14 Deadline for RECONSIDERATION/PASSAGE of APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OTHER House.

3/15 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills originating in OTHER House.

3/16 Deadline to concur or not concur in amendments from OTHER House to APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills.

3/18 Deadline for INTRODUCTION of LOCAL and PRIVATE bills that are REVENUE bills.

3/19 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider concurrence or nonconcurrence in APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills.

3/22 Deadline to CONCUR or not concur in AMENDMENTS from OTHER HOUSE to GENERAL bills and CONSTITUTIONAL amendments.

3/24 Deadline for CONFERENCE REPORTS on APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills to be filed.**+

3/25 Deadline for INTRODUCTION of LOCAL and PRIVATE bills that are not REVENUE bills.

3/26 Deadline for FINAL ADOPTION of CONFERENCE REPORTS on APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills and for CONFERENCE REPORTS on GENERAL BILLS and CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS to be filed.**+

3/27 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider conference reports on APPROPRIATIONS and REVENUE bills.

3/28 Deadline for first consideration of conference reports on general bills and constitutional amendments.

3/29 Deadline for filing conference reports on general bills and constitutional amendments that had been recommitted for further conference.+

3/30 Deadline for adoption of conference reports on general bills and constitutional amendments after recommittal.

3/31 Deadline to dispose of motions to reconsider conference reports on general bills and constitutional amendments.

4/1 SINE DIE

* Appropriation, revenue, and local and private bills, and bills to restore suffrage are excluded from these deadlines. For purposes of the deadlines herein set forth, the term "revenue bills" shall include only those bills whose primary purpose is to increase or decrease taxes or to authorize the issuance of bonds or the borrowing of money. Bills which are primarily for regulatory purposes which have revenue provisions included shall not be considered as revenue bills for deadline purposes. The deletion from a bill of the features which made it a revenue bill shall render the bill a general bill for deadline purposes.

** Conference reports on all bills must be filed with the Secretary/Clerk no later than the time of adjournment on the day prior to being called up and considered. Appropriation bills which actually appropriate money and are recommitted for further conference are excluded from the requirement that the subsequent conference report be filed and lay on table one (1) day before being considered; however, original action must be taken on all appropriation conference reports by 2:00 p.m. on the 84th/119th day and subsequent reports must be filed no later than 6:00 p.m.

*** Requests for general bills and constitutional amendments to be drafted must be made no later than 8:00 p.m. on the 9th/45th day. The Rules Committee of the House or Senate, as the case may be, may authorize any member of its respective house to make requests, for one or more general bills or constitutional amendments to be drafted, after the expiration of the deadline for making such drafting requests but before the deadline for introduction of bills and constitutional amendments, upon a determination by the Rules Committee that such drafting requests are in response to conditions of an emergency nature arising subsequent to the deadline for making requests for general bills and constitutional amendments to be drafted.

+ Committee reports and conference reports that are subject to being filed on these deadlines must be filed with the Secretary/Clerk no later than 8:00 p.m.

Whenever the word "day" appears in this rule, it shall mean calendar day.

The above schedule shall not be deviated from except by the passage of a concurrent resolution adopted by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the membership of the House and Senate present and voting.