[LWVNM Action] What's up with all the new bills not on the call?
Akkana Peck
akkana at shallowsky.com
Sat Jan 25 10:38:27 MST 2020
Newbie question for the veteran legislature-watchers:
I was looking through the bills filed yesterday, and wondering about
all the anti-abortion bills, HB208, HB209, HB210. Abortion wasn't on
the Governor's call, so why, several days after the call, are
legislators filing new abortion bills now? Aren't they just going to
be declared not germane? Is it a deliberate time-wasting tactic?
Of course, there are lots of other bills that don't seem germane
either, and I wonder about all of them, but the abortion issue seems
particularly clear. Why would legislators file bills after the call
on topics they know weren't in the call?
(And for those of us new to this, why is the Governor's message
called a "call"?)
...Akkana
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