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

ADOPTING A LEGISLATIVE JOINT RULE ESTABLISHING DEADLINES FOR ACTION ON LEGISLATION FOR THE FORTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE.

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, that the following new joint rule be adopted to read:

"BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS -

DEADLINE FOR PASSAGE FROM HOUSE OF ORIGIN

During any regular session of the forty-sixth legislature, a bill or resolution, with the exception of a general appropriation bill, bills to provide for the current expenses of the government, any other bill making appropriations or raising revenue and bills introduced after the deadline for the introduction of bills pursuant to a referral to the legislature by the governor by special message specifically setting forth the emergency or necessity requiring such legislation, that has not passed its house of origin by the twenty-seventh calendar day of a session convened in an even- numbered year and the fifty-seventh calendar day of a session convened in an odd-numbered year shall be deemed lost and shall not be considered by either house. For the purposes of this rule, the computation of time shall be as provided in Section 12-2A-7 NMSA 1978.".