Rounding up the cutoff casualties
Plus more on subsidized child care, the income tax, and the influence of alcohol
We’ve entered that period of the Legislature’s session where the stuff that people really care about starts to die. Wednesday marked the opposite-house policy cutoff, which claimed some high-profile victims. Over the weekend, many lobbyists and lawmakers will be sweating bullets as House Appropriations and Senate Ways & Means consider bills ahead of the fiscal cutoff on Monday.
Some noteworthy casualties:
Environmental crimes bill dies under avalanche of labor opposition
A Senate-passed proposal to toughen penalties for various environmental crimes died without a vote in a House committee this week. Sen. Yasmin Trudeau’s Senate Bill 5360 was the last measure to pass the Senate before the house-of-origin cutoff earlier this month, a signifier that it was a priority for the chamber’s Democratic majority.
