Thursday, February 7, 2013

I had hoped to report on the Senate Judiciary Committee action on S. 31 but the committee got hung up on two other bills and never got to it. It’s been delayed until next Tuesday.

Tomorrow the full Senate should pass the budget adjustment act. The senate version also contains the $2,000,000 the judiciary requested.

In both today’s House and Senate calendars this appeared:

CROSSOVER DEADLINES

The following bill reporting deadlines are established for the 2013 session:

(1) From the standing committee of last reference, excluding the

Committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means, all House bills must be

reported out of committee on or before March 15, 2013.

(2) House bills referred pursuant to House Rule 35a, must be reported out

of the Committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means on or before March

22, 2013.

CROSSOVER DEADLINES

The following bill reporting deadlines are established for the 2013 session:

(1) From the standing committee of last reference (excluding the

Committees on Appropriations and Finance), all Senate bills must be reported

out of committee on or before March 15, 2013.

(2) Senate bills referred pursuant to Senate Rule 31, must be reported out of

the Committees on Appropriations and Finance on or before March 22, 2013.

 (3) These deadlines may be waived for any bill or committee only by

consent given by the Committee on Rules.

We’re still awaiting the introduction of some bills, for example, the updated foreclosure mediation bill and now we face a deadline that’s about a month away! There will either have to be a number of exemptions or plenty of unfinished work for January 2014!

Thanks for reading. Stay safe in the storm!