Relative to the Joint Rules of the Senate and Assembly for the 2017-18 Regular Session.

This measure would require that notice of a hearing on an issue by a budget subcommittee, or notice of an informational hearing in a budget subcommittee, be published in the Daily File 4 days prior to the hearing. The measure would require that the agenda for a budget subcommittee hearing, as well as the full text of any bill heard before the committee, be posted on the Internet Web site of the budget subcommittee four days prior to the hearing. The measure would require that the chairpersons of the committees in each house that consider the budget introduce all of the Governor's proposals for appropriations related to the Budget Bill. The measure would require the Legislature to only hear or act upon a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill if that bill has been in print for 72 hours and makes a substantive change in or addition to existing law.