A lot of bills met the end of the road yesterday at the 5:00 pm House of Origin cutoff. According to legislative rules, no non-fiscal bill can be sent to the opposite chamber after that cutoff.783 bills were introduced in the House this year, and 88 were still in the Rules committee from last session (the first year of the biennium.) Of those, only 257 were sent to the Senate by the close of business yesterday. And a good many of those survivors will not make it through the Senate process and end up on the governor's desk next month. Such is the life of a good little bill trying to become a law.
So what is still alive? Major Democratic priorities kept moving:
- The Jobs Now proposal is exempt from cut-off and expected to be heard in committee soon after the revenue forecast later this week.
- We took the next steps in implementing the federal afforable care act.
- Important education reform to improve outcomes for students advanced.
- We updated the state's environmental protection act.
- A package of bills to crack down on drunk drivers and another that helps improve foster care in our state.
You can read more about these and other priorities that are advancing here.
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