February 2009

Legislative updates – Whadda you think?

l3wis February 24, 2009 10Comments

The axed up, chopped up, okay to smoke in Deadwood and cigar bars smoking ban bill makes it to the Senate.

The bill, HB1240, passed 43-27 and now goes back to the Senate, which earlier defeated a different version of the bill by one vote.

I think this bill will either fail in the Senate or be veto’d by Rounds. What do you think?

The elimination of the Food Tax will go to a vote today, I hope it passes, but I have a feeling too many Republicans will block it and it won’t even make it to the Governor’s desk. The bill is very simple, it removes the food on most grocery items and replaces the lost revenue with a .5% increase on everything else. What do you think?

HB1188 – a bill which dramatically impacts citizens’ ability to bring about state constitutional change by petitioning for a statewide vote has narrowly passed the House YEAS 39, NAYS 27, has been heard once in the Senate and is up before Senate State Affairs on Wednesday.

 

I think this bill will pass and be signed. If there is one thing our legislators hate more than anything is having citizens the right to petition. Every year they pass more laws limiting petition drives. They hate it when they are proven wrong about legislation, time and time again. What do you think?