WHAT HAPPENED: Jones Street surged back to lawmaking business after the previous week's soft schedule.
WHAT IT MEANS: The end is near? The General Assembly is by all accounts disposing of final bill considerations before adjournment, 可能是7月22日
八月底的复会 is in discussion. There's also that one big piece of state governance to complete: the budget.
ON TAP: 你会想起政府. 罗伊·库珀否决了大会发给他的预算, 部分原因是该州没有扩大医疗补助计划, which
仍然是争论的焦点 在两边之间. So far, 推翻否决的努力并未取得成功, 尽管共和党领导人表示他们仍在努力. 众议院通过了一项
补充拨款法案 与此同时,等待参议院的行动.
THE SKINNY: While the legislature may be concluding the current slate of bill work, 活跃度很高,我们一直在跟踪它. 在此公告中, we'll detail what happened with a number of bills of interest to cities and towns, touching everything from short-term rentals to electric scooters to regulatory reform and more.
After much negotiation with the League and other local government interests, a modified 除罪条例草案 advanced in the House Wednesday with a favorable report from the House Judiciary Committee. 现在,我们不再将所有地方法令合法化, SB 584刑法改革 would allow local governments to retain criminal enforcement of their local codes, 有一个重要的警告:如果当地政府是一个超过1的城市,人口1000万, 或者一个超过20人的县,人口1000万, it would need to submit a report that lists of all of its ordinances that were punishable by a criminal penalty. 如果联合国大会在11月11日之前没有收到这份报告. 1, 2019, then that local government’s code of ordinances would immediately become enforceable only by civil penalties. 立法机关去年制定了这项报告要求, 数百个地方政府已经遵守了规定. 该法案接下来必须由众议院规则委员会听取. 城市和城镇尤其感谢 Rep. Dennis Riddell for his consideration of local government concerns in working to revise the bill.
本周,一些与酒精有关的法案获得了进展,包括 HB 536 ABC综合监管改革, which passed the House with language that would allow the sale of more than one alcoholic beverage to a single patron at a time; allow the consumption of alcohol at bingo games and farmers markets; place restriction on the establishment of new Alcoholic Beverage Control boards; enable a local option for spirituous liquor tastings in ABC stores; and allow local ABC boards to deliver liquor to mixed-beverage permittees for a fee. 与此同时,众议院通过了该法案 SB 290 ABC监管改革法案, which contains language similar to HB 536 but originally pertained to distilleries. The bill has gone back to the Senate for concurrence; H536 has been referred to the 参议院规则委员会.