Time Limit on Introducing
91a. No House joint resolution and no House bill, other than
a House supplementary appropriation bill or a House bill
originating in a House standing or select committee, shall be
introduced in the House after the forty-fifth day of a regular
session unless permission to introduce the joint resolution or bill
be given by a House resolution, setting out the title to the joint
resolution or bill and adopted by a two-thirds vote of the House
members present. The forty-fifth day of the regular session held
in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven and every fourth
year thereafter shall be computed from and include the second
Wednesday of February of such years. When permission is requested
to introduce a joint resolution or bill under provisions of this
rule, quadruplicate copies of the joint resolution or bill shall
accompany the resolution or bill when introduced.