Today is Day 50 of the 105-day 2015 Regular Session.
Legislative cutoff dates signal the ebb and flow of legislative activity, as committee, staff and legislative members’ workloads change in response to the winnowing list of bills still “alive.”
Legislative work moves from committee to floor sessions this week, as both policy and fiscal cutoffs on the legislative calendar are now in the rear view mirror. That means if either a policy bill, or a bill with a fiscal impact, hasn’t been voted out of committee, it’s not likely going further in the process this year. That being said, some bills declared “dead” may still be revived if they are deemed necessary to implement the budget (“NTIB”).
The next cutoff will be the floor cutoff on Wednesday, March 11 at 5:00pm, the time by which a bill has to make it out of its house of origin, to be considered by the other chamber.
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