Saturday, February 2, 2019

So what happened in the Legislature this past week?

Well, we already updated you on quite a bit.  But here's a tad more.



Advancing:

House Bill 145 eliminating the death penalty passed the House and went on to the Senate.

House Bill 10, a controversial bill imposing fines on protesters at certain industrial facilities went to the floor from committee.

House Bill 230, a bill that would prohibit employer discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation went from committee to the floor.

Failed:

House Bill 305 which would have studied ways to gain public access to 3,000,000 acres of public land without it in the state died.  It would have devoted $50,000 to that effort.

House Bill 234 which would have eliminated felony level punishment for possession of marijuana at a certain amount failed.  The expressed concern is that there was little way to tell if a person at that level had an intent to distribute or not.

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