Committee Reports

After considering a bill, a committee may choose to take no action or may issue a report on the bill to the house or senate. The committee report, expressing the committee's recommendations regarding house or senate action on a bill, includes a record of the committee's vote on the report, the text of the bill as reported by the committee, a detailed bill analysis, a fiscal note or other impact statement, and other attachments as necessary.

The required parts of the committee report are assembled and printed and distributed to the members as a single document. Committee reports are advisory only and may take several forms. The committee may recommend passage of the bill without amendments, or it may recommend amendments to the bill or even substitute a new bill for the original document.

In the house, all committee reports are referred to the chief clerk, who forwards them to the printer. After being printed, a copy of the house committee report printing (which includes bill text, the committee's recommendation and vote on the bill, the bill analysis, the fiscal note, and other necessary impact statements and attachments) is placed in the post office box of each member of the house. The chief clerk then delivers a certified copy of the committee report to the appropriate calendars committee (the Committee on Calendars or the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars) for placement of the bill on a calendar for consideration by the full house. Calendars committees are given wide discretion in scheduling bills for floor action.

The senate rules also require committee reports to be printed. After being printed, a copy of the senate committee report printing (which includes bill text, the committee's recommendation and vote on the bill, the bill analysis, the fiscal note, and other necessary impact statements and attachments) is placed in the bill book on each senator's desk in the senate chamber. Except for the role of the Committee on Administration in scheduling local and noncontroversial bills for consideration, there is no equivalent to a calendars committee in the senate. The senate's regular order of business lists all bills and resolutions that have been reported favorably from committees in the order in which they were reported to the senate. For all practical purposes, the regular order of business is merely a listing of bills that are eligible for consideration, because the senate rules provide that a bill on the regular order of business may not be brought up for floor consideration unless the senate sponsor of the bill has filed with the secretary of the senate a written notice of intent to suspend the regular order of business for consideration of the bill.

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From: Arttimesrecord@aol.com [mailto:Arttimesrecord@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 7:55 AM
To: Manuel, James D
Subject: Re: New info concerning HB323

Thanks, James - now where does the bill go?

Art

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