House Rules Committee adopts April 13 calendar and requires prefunding for amendments

The House Rules Committee convened Thursday, April 9, and approved the minutes from its April 7 meeting before adopting the committee calendar for Monday, April 13 and instituting a prefunding requirement for amendments to bills on that calendar.

Chair Lawn called the meeting to order and confirmed a quorum was present. During the procedural business, committee members read a slate of House files slated for the April 13 calendar; lead authors named during the reading included Representatives Allen, Freiberg, Kotyza-Witthuhn, Driskell, Reyer and Repinski. Representative Allen moved approval of the minutes earlier in the meeting.

A member renewed a motion to adopt the calendar for the day and to establish a prefunding requirement for any amendments offered to the bills on that calendar pursuant to committee rules. Representative Scott urged members to support the motion. The chair put the matter to a voice vote; members responded in the affirmative and the chair announced the calendar and the prefunding requirement were approved.

The committee did not record individual roll-call tallies in the transcript; the approval was conducted by voice vote. The committee referenced conducting this action "pursuant to rules" when renewing the motion; the specific rule citations read aloud in the transcript were noted as Rules 1.2, 1.3 and related paragraphs. No further debate or substantive amendments were recorded in the transcript. The meeting then moved to the next item of business.

What happens next: The committee will meet on Monday, April 13 to consider the items on the adopted calendar with the newly stated prefunding requirement for amendments in effect. The transcript does not specify implementation mechanics or dollar thresholds for the prefunding requirement.