After two months of business in the virtual Statehouse, lawmakers will scramble this week to meet Friday’s deadline for policy bills to move from the House to the Senate (and vice versa).
The midsession passage of bills from one chamber to another is called crossover. What lawmakers ditch or push through by the crossover deadline sets the stage for the rest of the 2021 session.
On the table, along with many others are permanent mail-in voting, pension reform, expanded broadband access, a ban on flavored tobacco, racial equity in the marijuana marketplace and a loophole allowing the use of police chokeholds.
House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, anticipates lawmakers will approve a $32 million broadband expansion proposal, a measure to make child care more affordable and a package of social justice and racial equity bills.
The House deadline for money bills — the state budget and tax and fee changes — is March 19.
Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, D-Windham, said senators are working to pass bills for a universal school meals program, to help launch the state’s marijuana market, and to set up an inspection system and statewide registry of all rental units — including short-term vacation rentals.
On Saturday, the U.S Senate passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief…
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After two months of business in the virtual Statehouse, lawmakers will scramble this week to meet Friday’s deadline for policy bills to move from the House to the Senate (and vice versa).
The midsession passage of bills from one chamber to another is called crossover. What lawmakers ditch or push through by the crossover deadline sets the stage for the rest of the 2021 session.
On the table, along with many others are permanent mail-in voting, pension reform, expanded broadband access, a ban on flavored tobacco, racial equity in the marijuana marketplace and a loophole allowing the use of police chokeholds.
House Speaker Jill Krowinski, D-Burlington, anticipates lawmakers will approve a $32 million broadband expansion proposal, a measure to make child care more affordable and a package of social justice and racial equity bills.
The House deadline for money bills — the state budget and tax and fee changes — is March 19.
Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, D-Windham, said senators are working to pass bills for a universal school meals program, to help launch the state’s marijuana market, and to set up an inspection system and statewide registry of all rental units — including short-term vacation rentals.
On Saturday, the U.S Senate passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief…
