As a bill moves through the committee process, the staff prepares the "bill report. The bill report is edited as the bill moves through the process. When the bill moves to the opposite house, that house prepares a bill report as well. A bill that has finally passed the Legislature would have House, Senate, and Final bill reports. At the start of the session, both houses agree on dates by which bills have to be reported out of committee in order to be eligible for further consideration by the Legislature.
There is a "cut-off" date for bills to be out of committee in the first house and one for bills to be out of committee in the second house.
Rules Committee: Once a bill has been reported by the appropriate committee s , the floor acts on the committee report and then passes the bill to the Rules Committee. Usually, the floor adopts the committee's recommendation. The Rules Committee is where leadership exercises the most control over the process.
The Rules Committee is made up of members from both parties. Each member on the committee gets to select two or three bills that will move on to the next step in the process. Which bills a member selects could be the result of a party caucus, or another member approaching that member, or a piece of legislation about which the member feels strongly.
Rules Committee members review the bills and decide whether or not to move them on to the next step. Sometimes bills skip this step and go to the calendar for second reading. It is another step that allows leadership to control the process. Those bills that will probably require some debate are placed on the regular calendar. Those that are probably not controversial may be placed on the suspension calendar in the House, the consent calendar in the Senate.
Each house prepares documents that list the bills scheduled to be heard on the floor. The House prepares "bill report books" containing an order of contents and the bill report of each bill on the calendar and "floor calendars" a list of the bills, a brief description for each, and the committee action on each.
The Senate prepares "calendars" with an order of contents and the bill report of each bill , and "flash calendars" the list with the brief descriptions and committee actions. The Senate flash calendar lists only those bills that were "pulled" from Rules at the last Rules Committee meeting.
Second Reading: It is on second reading that the chamber discusses the merits of the legislation. It is here, too, where members can offer amendments to the bill. Most bills that get this far get their second reading in the couple of weeks following the committee cut-off.
If a bill has been amended in committee or on the floor in the first house, it is ordered engrossed. Engrossing a bill means incorporating the amendments into the body of the bill so that the second house gets one document.
During session, several reports are provided which can be generated based on purpose. Appointments to certain boards and offices that require Senate confirmation are tracked and maintained. Information is provided on what committees heard the appointment, how the Senate voted on the appointment and what other appointments an appointee may currently or historically have.
In addition, appointments can be sorted by district for the current session year only. The Senate determines whether to remove or reinstate certain officers who have been suspended by Executive Order of the Governor. Redistricting is the process of redrawing the boundaries of congressional and state legislative electoral districts to reflect population changes that result from the decennial census.
Learn about the milestones, public hearings and the submitted plans for both the Senate and House. In this Section Bills Legislative proposals may be in the form of bills, resolutions, concurrent resolutions, joint resolutions, or memorials.
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The next definition of a session is the yearly session, which begins on the day the Legislature assembles and ends on the day it adjourns for the year. Daily sessions, which adjourn each day, are any time the House or Senate meet on the floor of their respective chambers. At such times, both bodies are referred to as "in session. Finally, a special session is one called by the governor at a time other than a regularly scheduled session.
The legislature, however, determines the length and purpose of any such session. The Minnesota Legislature meets each year, functioning on a two-year cycle called a biennium.
The first year of the biennium is called the "long year," and lasts from January to mid-May. The second year is called the "short year," and typically runs from February through mid-May. Since , the Minnesota Legislature has met in session every year, the result of a constitutional amendment, which allowed for "flexible sessions.
Rather, it just allowed for them to happen. When the Minnesota Constitution was written in , it placed no limit on the number of days the Legislature could meet in session and did not prohibit the Legislature from meeting each year.
Three years later, sessions were limited to 60 days in length. Until , the Legislature met each year. It was in that the Minnesota Constitution was amended to provide for biennial sessions with a limit of 60 days. In , the number of days was increased to 90, and in , increased again to the current days. From until , when lawmakers redefined the term, legislative days were measured consecutively, meaning that the clock began ticking the moment the Legislature convened, excluding Sundays.
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