Committee votes on ballot initiatives
Plus some other interesting bill action at the opposite-house deadline
Today marks another key deadline at the Legislature. Most Senate bills must pass the House – and vice versa – by 5 p.m. We’re tracking some interesting measures that may or may not make it.
Meanwhile, three of the suite of six conservative ballot initiatives put before the Legislature via signature drive are moving today in a remarkable display of lawmakers reluctantly allowing a populist pushback against some signature policy decisions of the last few years.
The action got started in the Senate Law & Justice Committee, where lawmakers voted out Initiative 2113, which would roll back restrictions on police pursuits of criminal suspects, on a voice vote with several of the Democratic majority on the panel voting “no.”
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