Week 15 Legislative Report

This fifteenth week of session was supposed to be the last week.  Instead, we will be back next week (at least) for a variety of reasons. The week ended late Thursday afternoon with the sound of alarms as a recorded voice directed people out of the chambers and down to the capitol’s basement. That occurred after a computer network problem delayed and then slowed legislative business to a crawl. The capitol’s internet service, voting machines and microphones all went out, reminding all how dependent our society has become on computers. Legislators struggled for awhile the old-fashioned way but shortly after lawmakers returned to the chambers after the second evacuation, leaders adjourned for the day and announced there would be no further business until Monday.

There were signs legislators are trying to move closer to adjournment. Eight budget bills are officially headed for conference committee. Up to this point conference committees have not been able to meet because leadership had not agreed on the “big number”, the total general fund spending for the coming fiscal year. Thursday afternoon it was announced that the

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