46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2003

AMENDING LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE 10-1 TO CHANGE THE DEADLINES FOR MAKING A REQUEST TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL SERVICE TO DRAFT A BILL.

WHEREAS, Legislative Joint Rule 8-1 provides for the adoption, amendment or repeal of joint rules by concurrent resolution approved by two-thirds of the membership of each house;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING THEREIN, that Legislative Joint Rule 10-1 be amended to read:

"BILL INTRODUCTION (10-1)

The legislative council service shall not draft or prepare a bill for introduction at any regular session of the legislature that convenes in an odd-numbered year unless the request to draft or prepare the bill for introduction has been received by the legislative council service prior to 5:00 p.m. on the [twenty-eighth] eighteenth calendar day of that session. The legislative council service shall not draft or prepare a bill for introduction at any regular session of the legislature that convenes in an even-numbered year unless the request to draft or prepare the bill for introduction has been received by the legislative council service prior to 5:00 p.m. on the [thirteenth] eighth calendar day of that session. The limitation provided in this rule does not apply to the general appropriation bill, bills to provide for the current expenses of the government and such bills as may be referred to the legislature by the governor by special message specifically setting forth the emergency or necessity requiring such legislation."; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the amendments proposed by this concurrent resolution shall not take effect unless legislation is enacted by the first session of the forty-sixth legislature that shortens the statutory period for introducing bills.