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Saturday, May 30, 2015 (138th day)
Midnight deadline for house to distribute house copies of all conference committee reports
[relates to House Rule 13, Sec. 10(a), requiring 24-hourlayout of all conference committee reports]
Midnight deadline for senate to print and distribute senate copies of all conference committee reports on bills
other than those on tax, general appropriations, and reapportionment and all house amendments to senate bills
and joint resolutions that did not go to a conference committee.
[relates to Senate Rule 12.09(b) and Senate Rule 7.21, requiring 24-hourlayout of certain conference
committee reports and house amendmentsto senate bills during the last 72 hours of a regular session; Senate
Rule 10.01 subjectsjoint resolutionsto the rules governing proceedings on bills]
Sunday, May 31, 2015 (139th day)
Last day for house to adopt conference committee reports or discharge house conferees and concur in Senate
Amendments
[House Rule 8, Sec. 13(e)]
Last day for senate to adopt conference committee reports or concur in house amendments
[relates to Senate Rule 7.25, limiting a vote on the passage of any bill during the last 24 hours of the session to
correct an error in the bill]
Monday, June 1, 2015 (140th day)
Last day of 83rd Regular Session; corrections only in house and senate
[Sec. 24(b), Art. III, Texas Constitution; House Rule 8, Sec. 13(f); Senate Rule 7.25]
Regular Session Ends
Sunday, June 21, 2015 (20th day following final adjournment of Regular Session)
Last day governor can sign or veto bills passed during the regular session
[Section 14, Art. IV, Texas Constitution]
Monday, August 31, 2015 (91st day following final adjournment of Regular Session)
Date that bills without specific effective dates (that could not be effective immediately) become law