2011 Session Schedule
January 10 - First day of session
January 11 - Governor's Condition of the State Address & Budget Released
January 14 - Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court's Condition of the Judiciary Address
TBA - Last day for legislators to request & sponsor bills (committee chairs and leaders can still make requests)
TBA - First Funnel Deadline - Bills have to be voted out of a House or Senate Committee to remain eligible for debate, unless they spend money or propose a tax or are sponsored by legislative leaders. Bills that do not are considered "dead" and can no longer be acted upon.
TBA - Second Funnel Deadline - Bills have to be passed out of either the House or the Senate, and out of committee in the opposite chamber to remain eligible for debate, unless they spend money or propose a tax or are sponsored by legislative leaders. Bills that do not are considered "dead" and can no longer be acted upon.
March 30 - 80th Day of Session - Legislators may again try to shorten session by making this the "last day" of session, although legislators can (and usually do) go longer. Typically, the first session in a two-year cycle (which 2011 is) lasts 110 days and the second session lasts 100 days. But legislators have been shortening sessions in order to save money and work faster.
ID Action Advocating Change Day 2011 is on March 30, 2011.
Details will be coming later in the year.