MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1999 Regular Session

To: Rules

By: Senator(s) Ross

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AMENDING JOINT RULE NO. 40 TO SHORTEN THE TIMETABLE FOR PROCESSING LEGISLATION IN THE 1999 REGULAR SESSION BY TWO WEEKS.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, That Joint Rule No. 40 is amended to read as follows:

40. TIMETABLE FOR PROCESSING LEGISLATION

90-day 1999 Regular

Session Session

10th day 4th day Deadline for making requests for

general bills and constitutional

amendments to be drafted.***

14th day 7th day Deadline for introduction of bills

and constitutional amendments.*

29th day 15th day Deadline for committees to report

bills and constitutional amendments

originating in own house.*+

38th day 24th day Deadline for original floor action

on bills and constitutional

amendments originating in own

house.*

39th day 25th day Deadline for reconsideration and

passage of bills and constitutional

amendments originating in own

house.*

42nd day 28th day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider bills and constitutional

amendments originating in own

house.*

51st day 37th day Deadline for original floor action

on appropriation and revenue bills

originating in own house.

52nd day 38th day Deadline for reconsideration and

passage of appropriation and

revenue bills originating in own

house.

53rd day 39th day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider appropriation and

revenue bills originating in own

house.

57th day 43rd day Deadline for committees to report

bills and constitutional amendments

originating in other house.*+

65th day 51st day Deadline for original floor action

on bills and constitutional

amendments originating in other

house.*

66th day 52nd day Deadline for reconsideration and

passage of bills and constitutional

amendments originating in other

house.*

67th day 53rd day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider bills and constitutional

amendments originating in other

house.*

71st day 57th day Deadline for original floor action

on appropriation and revenue bills

originating in other house.

72nd day 58th day Deadline for reconsideration and

passage of appropriation and

revenue bills originating in other

house.

73rd day 59th day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider appropriation and

revenue bills originating in other

house.

74th day 60th day Deadline to concur or not concur in

amendments from other house to

appropriation and revenue bills.

77th day 63rd day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider concurrence or

nonconcurrence in appropriation and

revenue bills.

80th day 66th day Deadline to concur or not concur

in amendments from other house to

general bills and constitutional

amendments.

82nd day 68th day Deadline for conference reports on

appropriation and revenue bills to

be filed.**+

84th day 70th day Deadline for final adoption of

conference reports on appropriation

and revenue bills and for conference

reports on general bills and

constitutional amendments to be

filed.**+

85th day 71st day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider conference reports on

appropriation and revenue bills.

86th day 72nd day Deadline for first consideration

of conference reports on general

bills and constitutional amendments.

87th day 73rd day Deadline for filing conference

reports on general bills and

constitutional amendments that had

been recommitted for further

conference.+

88th day 74th day Deadline for adoption of

conference reports on general bills

and constitutional amendments

after recommittal.

89th day 75th day Deadline to dispose of motions to

reconsider conference reports on

general bills and constitutional

amendments.

90th day 76th day 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/70th 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 6:00 p.m. on the 18th day of the 1996 Regular Session and no later than 8:00 p.m. on the 10th day of a 90-day session and no later than 8:00 p.m. on the 4th day of the 1999 Regular Session. 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.