We call for changes to the House Rules and legislation that will improve timely legislative action in the Legislature including:
a) Legislation to remove the constitutional provision that the Legislature cannot take action until sixty (60) days after convening.
b) Requiring the House Calendars Committee to vote on a bill within fourteen days of receipt, or it is automatically put on the calendar.
c) Automatic setting of a bill on the calendar within seven days if it is cosponsored by a simple majority plus one of House members.
d) Votes on each bill individually that is not set on the calendar, rather than killing a slate of bills at once.
e) Requiring assignment of all bills to a committee within seven days of the filing deadline or within two days of receipt from the opposite chamber.
f) A petition process for legislators to petition the House Speaker to have the ability to move a bill out of committee by getting a prescribed number of signatures of the Representatives and having the bill sent to the floor with no changes within one week of presenting the petition that contains the prescribed number of signatures.