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Title: Bill referral handout [regarding the elimination of bill referral by memo, under House Rule 6.05(b)]
Article Date: 1/31/2020
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Author: House Research Department
Type: Other
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File: Bill referral handout (003) (002).pdf 

Text: Bills that are introduced during the 2020 session will be referred according to House Rule 1.11, paragraph 2. There will be no referral by memo, under House Rule 6.05(b). This will mean that bills will be referred directly by the Speaker to a committee, division, or a division of a division. A recommendation of the committee, division, or division of the division will return the bill to the floor for re-referral to the next stop--either another committee, division, or division of a division, or to the General Register.
? A committee report will be prepared and adopted by the House on the floor each time a bill is re-referred to another committee, division, or division of a division, or to the General Register.
? There will be no referrals of any bills to a division or a division of a division by memo as was done in the 2019 session under House Rule 6.05(b).
? Referrals to subcommittees by a Chair, under House Rule 6.04, will still occur as in past years.
? Bills that were referred by memo to a division or a division of a division during the 2019 legislative session will not be further referred by memo. A division, at an official hearing, may vote to return the bill referred by memo back to Ways and Means.
? In some instances, a bill may be in a division of a division. In that case, the bill will have to move from the division of the division, to the division, and then to Ways and Means. (This applies to bills introduced in 2019 only.)
? Ways and Means shall NOT refer bills onward by memo, but will instead send them to the floor, with a recommendation as to the next stop, either to another committee, division, division of a division, or to the General Register.


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