Members like Rep. Steve May, R-Paradise Valley, want to stop the practice of arbitrarily killing bills in the Rules Committee and will push for a new policy before the full House this afternoon.
All bills go through the committee, where members determine if legislation is constitutional.
But they often kill bills because the majority, or just the chairman, disagrees with the substance. May's proposed change would allow a 31-member House majority to extract any bill stuck in Rules and bring it to vote before the full House. Currently it takes 36 members to discharge a bill being held in committee. May has the support of at least nine of 36 Republicans and 23 of 24 House Democrats. May's proposal doesn't affect the Senate.