Sec. 2-17. Presession introduction of bills.
Sec. 2-17. Presession introduction of bills. Any member-elect of either house of
the General Assembly, prior to the beginning of the regular session in the January following such member's election, may introduce any bill for a public or special act by filing
the same with the clerk of the House or Senate, who shall assign to each such bill a
House or Senate serial number and shall cause to be made a sufficient number of photo-offset copies of such bill. Each such bill shall be filed in triplicate and shall be typewritten
or printed, without interlineation or erasure, on paper eight and one-half by thirteen
inches or eight and one-half by fourteen inches in size, the second and third copies to
be on yellow-colored and blue-colored paper, respectively, of the same size and format
as the original. Any member-elect offering such bill shall endorse by signing thereon
such member-elect's name in some conspicuous place and shall attach thereto a statement of its purpose in not more than one hundred and fifty words, which are to be
typewritten or printed at the end of the bill under the caption "statement of purpose".
The head of each state department, board, commission or other state agency shall file
such head's requests for legislative enactment in the form of bills, appended to each a
summary and a fiscal note containing the information required pursuant to section 2-24a, with the clerk of the House or Senate on or before January fifteenth of the odd-numbered year and on or before February eighth in the even-numbered year. Such head
of each state department, board, commission or other state agency requiring assistance
from the Legislative Commissioners' Office in the preparation of such bills shall submit
requests for such assistance on or before December first of each year.
(1949 Rev., S. 17; 1957, P.A. 1, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 1, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 80; 1971, P.A. 167; 709; P.A. 05-262,
S. 3.)
History: 1959 act made presession filing actual introduction of bill, required duplicate on yellow paper, same size and
format as original, and required endorsement of name by actual signature; 1965 act required bills to be in triplicate; 1971
acts removed from comptroller the responsibility to make photo-offset copies of bills and permitted use of paper 8 1/2?
by 14? for bills and added provisions re deadlines for submission of bill requests and requests for assistance in preparing
bills; P.A. 05-262 added requirement that state agency attach summary and fiscal note to bill request and made technical
changes for gender neutrality.