[Last] week, the House met for the last time to vote on all committee of conference reports. No amendments allowed – just yes or no. And a motion to table is a non-debatable motion to kill the bill.
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Your State House
by Op-Ed
This week, the House met to vote on all remaining Senate bills. Since the Senate has been working away, quite a few bills some members strongly supported have been killed or drastically amended, one way or another.
Your State House
by Op-Ed
This week, my committee met twice on Senate bills. Tuesday we voted on six of them. SB 439, prohibiting boycotts of Israel in state procurement, was the most divisive. I moved to kill the bill, since the committee has long opposed using the state procurement system to make political statements.
Your State House – A Comprehensive Look At Last Week’s Legislative Activity
by Op-Ed
This week, the House met to consider all bills that didn’t go to a second committee. Since this was a deadline, many bills we wanted to kill would be tabled instead since the motion to table is not debatable. Anything on the table after this week would need a 2/3 vote to do anything, so it’s likely it’ll quietly die on the table.
Your State House
by Op-Ed
This week, my committee met to recommend eleven bills to the full House. Most had gone to the subcommittee, and as usual, we nearly always agreed with the subcommittee recommendation, and most recommendations were unanimous.
Night Cap: Your State House – A Comprehensive Round Up of Last Week’s Legislative Activity
by Op-Ed
This week, my committee continued with public hearings. HB 1188, qualifications of licensed nursing assistants, was an attempt to ease the requirement for fluency in English for this lowest level of nursing licensees. The bill separated the requirements for LNAs from those for other nurses, who still need to show their proficiency.
Carol McGuire: Your State House
by Op-Ed
This week, my committee continued with public hearings. HB 1292 allows state retirees to include adult children up to age 25 in their health insurance, whether or not they are students; this is the same as the employee plan and private health plans. Since the parents pay the full cost for their dependents, the committee voted unanimously to recommend this bill.
Public Hearing’s Are Upon Us
by Op-Ed
This week, the House started public hearings on the new bills. My committee first met to review the performance audit of mental health professional licensing.