Wednesday marked one of the most important days of their 105-day session: a deadline for bills to advance out of the House or Senate and be passed to the opposite chamber for further committee hearings and votes.
Bills must be approved by both chambers before they are sent to the governor to be signed into law. Wednesday’s cutoff is when many bills will die in the House or Senate after failing to get enough support from its chamber of origin to be passed along.
Democrats, who have a majority in both chambers of the Legislature, were able to keep their priorities on housing, public safety and education moving. Â Other proposals,
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