Legislative Update – Week of March 28
The House and Senate both retu to Springfield this week from a week of Spring Break. Both chambers will now focus primarily on moving bills out of their chamber and over to the opposite chamber for consideration therefore, the majority of time will be spent on the floor of their chambers on 2nd and 3rd Readings of bills. There have been a few changes to report in the status of bills on this report from last week.
There may be a notation of amendments that have been filed for consideration but are not yet adopted. As mentioned last week, with the substantive committee deadline having passed last week, there are many bills that have been retued to the Rules or Committee on Assignments for failure to be moved on to the floor in their respective chamber. While those bills remain on the report this week, they will be removed in future reports since they are essentially “dead” for the session. If they should have some action taken that would bring them back in a position for consideration, they will be added back to the report. It is possible that some bills have had an extended deadline. Extended deadlines are noted.