It's fiscal cutoff day; stuff's likely to die
Plus a middle-of-the-road Blake fix clears committee, and that parking bill is still alive
In general, if you’re trying to get a bill through the Legislature and it’s still sitting in Senate Ways and Means or House Appropriations on fiscal cutoff1 day, things have gotten dicey.
That’s the plight of 80 bills that might be history for the year by the end of the day. The clock-management aspects2 of the legislative process pretty much dictate that many of those bills won’t make it. Let’s look at some of the more interesting stuff hanging in the balance.
