Delaware lawmakers are setting a new deadline for the legislative year
From The News Journal
Delaware’s top two lawmakers are setting a deadline for when lawmakers can consider bills this year.
The goal is to lower the number of bills that are hastily passed through both chambers in the final days of session and “ensure as smooth an end of legislative session as possible,” according to a Wednesday news release from House Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach, and Senate President Pro Tempore David McBride, D-Hawk’s Nest.
The new rule says that June 10, 2020 is the last day that either the House or Senate chamber’s committees can consider bills that originate in their respective chambers.
In other words, it would be the last day House committees could consider House bills, and Senate committees could consider Senate bills, the release says.
That’s well before the General Assembly’s official deadline for the end of session, June 30. Wednesday’s announcement comes during the second week of the six-month 2020 session.
“These changes will result in a fairer and more transparent process during the hectic, final days of the legislative session,” McBride said in a statement included with the release. “This is the right thing to do for our members and the voters who entrusted us to represent them.”
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