[LWVNM Action] What's up with all the new bills not on the call?

[Judy Williams]

They haven't been printed, so they are dead.  It is probably a pre-election
statement by the sponsors -- see, we tried.

According to the experts there is no such thing as a "call" - rather, the
formal term is a message.  I dpn't kn ow where the term "call" came from.
Maybe others know.

As for germaneness, if there is money attached, or if the leadership
decides they want it, I think they can let it go.

Judy

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 10:38 AM Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> 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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