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.