Streamlining the Bill Process (part 2 of many)

First things first, Election Convention.

• Bill submission can happen, day 1, as soon as Election Convention. Call this Bill Submission Day 1.

Delegates who believe they have strong bills have the option of turning them in about two weeks before Pre Ledg.

Those bills will be read by the the Administration (Governor and others). If we believe they have the potential to be a unanimous bill, they will then go to a judiciary preview committee.

Next event: Pre Ledg.

• Normal Pre Ledg.

A new Judiciary Preview Committee will meet and be led by a former committee chair. The members on that committee will then pretend that they are just legislative delegates. They will debate the unanimous bill (so it should not take a lot of time) and vote on them. If the bill passes with a 2/3 majority, it is then assigned to the docket for Model as part of the first floor session in the House chamber.

• Bill Submission Day 2 

All bills must be into the system in the regular bill submission manners by the deadlines.
Authors whose bills are found to be a potential "unanimous bill" are encouraged to write a second bill that will go through the committee process at Model.

Third step: Model. 

1. The very first session at Model for the House members will BE IN THE HOUSE.
2. The 10 to 15 bills that made it through the prior Judiciary Preview Committee will only require two rounds of debate, unless a motion to extend debate is brought up on the floor. Hopefully many, if not all the bills will get through that House session within an hour and a half.  
3. While those potential unanimous bills are in the House debate, the Senators will be meeting in their committees.
4. Then as the first Senate session takes place, the unanimous bills get attention.
5. The party leaders will meet with Lt. Governor, (Ben Junker) and review the bills passed by the House.
6. They will then decide in their caucus which bills can go through and have support by each party. They will crank those out and then debate the rest.
7. Hopefully this will all end quickly and then they will move on to the bills passed in the first session of committee.



Streamline the bill process.

8. Hopefully the Governor (that's me) will then sign all the bills that were passed.