More time for the committee to consider your bill is far more important than more co-sponsors on your bill.

I spoke this afternoon with an advocate who’s asking my colleagues to co-sponsor one of my bills.

As we talked, I realized that hundreds of bills will be introduced next Thursday because it’s the deadline to introduce legislation and be guaranteed a committee hearing.

If I introduce my bills before then, they could be heard sooner.

An earlier hearing makes it likely that the committee will begin working on your bill sooner – before the bills introduced next Thursday.

“What’s the practical deadline for a bill to be introduced and be included on the weekly schedule update that’s published every Wednesday afternoon?” I asked a committee counsel.

“It needs to be read across the desk on Tuesday,” was the response.

“We need to get our bills to the Clerk’s Office by Monday evening,” I told my staff.