The House approved it 87-10 Thursday.
After two months of squabbling and negotiating, both chambers of the Legislature were able to reach a deal on a delay to the so-called levy cliff, passing and sending a compromise bill to Gov. Jay Inslee with overwhelming majorities.
The legislation failed on a 14-32 vote.
But districts’ levy authority is due to shrink next year under current law.
“It would’ve been a nightmare”, Longview Superintendent Dan Zorn said. A previous version of the bill passed the House in 2016 by 390-1.
Wildlife advocates are cheering passage of a bill in the New Mexico Senate yesterday that would prohibit hunting coyotes as a contest.
The Democratic majority in the House tends to frown sternly on any bill related to schools put forth by any Republican, but especially from a sponsor such as Lawrence, who raised money and helped elected numerous Republicans in the chamber. It doesn’t define what that means. They award prizes ranging from shotguns to semi-automatic rifles and say they make charitable contributions with their profits.
Republican Sen. Jimmy Hickey of Texarkana referenced the watchful eye of the NRA, without explicitly naming the lobbying organization, in his floor speech against the bill. Miller said he estimated the bill would end up costing the state more than $8 million a year in increased jail costs.
“I fear in reality something like this really harms the people we’re purporting to help”, she said. This legislation would require the SEC to provide a safe harbor for broker-dealers to publish research reports regarding exchange-traded funds without the reports being considered “offers” for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933. Dean Takko and state Reps.
Sherrod Brown, the panel’s ranking Democrat, praised the bipartisan work that went into the bills, and said he is optimistic “there are additional common sense measures” that can tackled next.
The plan, a top Senate Democrat indicated Thursday, is to advance the bill along with Rep. Jason Harper’s bill that would overhaul the state’s gross receipts tax system by closing more than 100 deductions and lowering state and local rates. “But in our talks in the House, we understand that all four corners. have agreed not to let that happen”, Walsh said.