(Updated 14 Jan 2012)
Open the link below in a separate window and look at it as you read the following narrative:
February2012Calendar.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The further the date the less fixed it is , but some are absolutely fixed.
The problem is that the calendar does not reflect everything that is happening.
Starting Jan 13th the Committees Legislative Concepts (bills from the committees) will start appearing.
The only way to know about these is to have set up an eSubscribe request to the committees (Legislative Home page bottom right corner)
Also on the 13th the Committee Agendas for the 18th, 19th and 20th will be available. Although the bills are supposed to filed by Jan 23rd, they will not start populating the website until about the Jan 25th. So we can start hunting and looking early. Jan 28th is the day all bills will be on the web site, we can start doing text searches, etc. of every proposed bill. The 30th the House Committees might start posting their agendas.
Scroll down to February and here is where the action begins. They convene on Feb 1st. On the 5th if a bill has not been assigned to a committee, it is for all practical purposes dead. Not 100%, for they have sneaky ways to bring dead things back to life. Also notice that three committees ar not constrained by this drop dad date. On the 14th if bills that originated in the House and passed out of committee are not assigned in the Senate and vice versa they are dead, with the above mentioned caveat.
The reason I tell you all of this is to show how tight of a schedule we will be on and to give you a heads up so we can start searching for bills as soon as practical.
