We are now in the final throes of the legislative session, as there are now no more committee meetings, and the two chambers can only consider bills from the other chamber, so any bills that move forward from here on out must have passed in at least its originating chamber.
What that means is that SB295 Dedicated Infrastructure District Act is now dead and done. That’s because it was on the Senate 2nd Reading calendar last night, but the Senate never got around to voting on it. Therefore, it has not passed in the Senate and cannot advance (unless there’s an extraordinary motion to suspend the rules for the bill and move it forward, which could happen. Not likely, but possible.)
The other bills that are still hanging fire at this point go through what used to be called “sifting” (don’t know if they still call it that) – where all bills that are still alive are returned to each chambers’ Rules Committee, and the committee then puts out a group of bills to be considered by the full chamber for the next floor session.
HB364 – Housing Affordability Amendments – was in the group released for this morning’s Senate floor session. The bill was substituted to a 4th substitute version and then passed by the Senate. However, shortly before the Senate adjourned for lunch, the bill was recalled for reconsideration and is back on the 2nd Reading calendar. Not sure why that’s happened, maybe because an amendment needs to be made. We’ll find out in the Senate’s afternoon session. The main change in the 4th substitute is to eliminate the Housing Support Grant Program.
Other bills we are following that are still alive and watching to see when they might be released from Rules to be voted on are:
HB408 – Mobile Business Licensing Amendments
SB158 – Water Exactions Amendment
SB174 – Local Land Use and Development Revisions – a 2nd substitute for this bill is released, which will likely be adopted when it comes up for a vote on the House floor. The substitute makes some of the lot line adjustment changes mentioned in previous emails, and some more changes in the MIHP provisions and in the subdivision process (nothing really new, all has been discussed).
SB181 – Campaign Sign Amendments
SB199 – Local Land Use Amendments
SB271 – Home Ownership Requirements
SB289 – Point of the Mountain State Land Authority Amendments
While HB291 – Short Term Rental Amendments could be on this list as well, the bill was held in Senate committee yesterday with the understanding that it would be worked on over the coming year interim.
There are other bills I did not mentioned because they were either held early in the process or failed in committee or floor votes and are dead – but in reality it is possible they could be resurrected – not likely, but possible. I won’t mention them again unless they do become zombies!