From Session Daily, 2016 committee deadlines announced:
The Legislature is scheduled to reconvene at noon on March 8. Legislators will have just over three weeks before the first committee deadline.
According to a memo from House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook), three committee deadlines for the 2016 session have been established:
- April 1, committees must act favorably on bills in the house of origin;
- April 8, committees must act favorably on bills, or companion bills, that met the first deadline in the other house; and
- April 21, the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee must act favorably on major appropriation and finance bills.
By law, legislators must adjourn this session by May 23.
If you don't have a lobbyist hired to chat up a bill you favor, that tight schedule suggests that you'd better start contacting your legislators long before the session if you want anything from the legislature.
Image: In April 2016, the deadline for bills to have legs will come sooner than we think. It's likely that time will simply swallow many of them. Where do those unheard bills go?
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