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DEL.ICIO.USUPDATED: Legislature to meet Monday
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Changes are coming to the General Assembly’s meeting schedule, as the House Rules Committee moments ago picked bills to debate on Monday.
The House and Senate had been meeting Tuesday through Thursday for the past several weeks, under a compromise schedule designed to add flexibility. The currently approved schedule has the Legislature meeting through March 25, and returning for a few days in late June.
That schedule was designed in case lawmakers needed more time through the spring to deal with a further eroding state budget scenario or to accommodate federal stimulus dollars.
There was no immediate word on what the decision to convene Monday means for the overall schedule, but if lawmakers meet Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, it would make Wednesday the all-important 30th day of the session.
The 30th of the 40 days that the Legislature is in session is the last day that a bill can pass from one chamber, and often sets off a frenzy of action as lawmakers sprint to get their bills sent across the Capitol in time.
UPDATE: OK, so when all else fails, consult the schedule.
According to House Resolution 238, which lawmakers approved back in February, which set the schedule for the year, the Legislature had already planned to meet Monday, Tuesday and Thursday next week.
That makes next Thursday the all-important Day 30.
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