BILL REQ. #:  H-0645.1 

Prefiled 01/08/09.   

     WHEREAS, It is of paramount importance to establish cutoff dates for the consideration of legislation during the 2009 Regular Session of the Sixty-First Legislature;
     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, By the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, the Senate concurring, That the following cutoff dates apply to all bills, memorials, and joint resolutions with the exception of budgets, matters necessary to implement budgets, initiatives to the legislature, and alternatives to initiatives to the legislature:
     (1) Wednesday, February 25, 2009, the forty-fifth day, will be the final day to read in committee reports in the house of origin, with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;
     (2) Monday, March 2, 2009, the fiftieth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports in the house of origin;
     (3) Thursday, March 12, 2009, the sixtieth day, at 5:00 p.m., will be the final time to consider bills in their house of origin;
     (4) Monday, March 30, 2009, the seventy-eighth day, will be the final day to read in committee reports on bills from the opposite house with the exception of reports from the Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committees;
     (5) Monday, April 6, 2009, the eighty-fifth day, will be the final day to read in Senate Ways and Means, Senate Transportation, and House of Representatives fiscal committee reports on bills from the opposite house; and
     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17, 2009, the ninety-sixth day, neither house may consider any bills, memorials, or joint resolutions except initiatives to the legislature and alternatives to such initiatives, budgets and matters necessary to implement budgets, messages pertaining to amendments, matters of differences between the two houses, and matters incident to the interim and to the closing of the business of the 2009 Regular Session of the Legislature.