Week In Review

Showing: March, 2004

• The Senate was working through measures in committees by the April 1st deadline to give bills from the opposite house a hearing. Among the legislation considered are the following:

-HB 2384 as amended by Sen. Angela Monson and Rep. Kevin Cox would prohibit the inclusion of Academic Performance Index data on secondary school student in certain districts and prohibits the data from being included on high school transcripts. The measure failed to receive a second in the committee.



Monday, March 1st

• The whole Senate is now focused on floor votes on bills in order to beat the March 11th deadline to have bills heard out of the house of origin. There were 700 Senate bills that made it out of committee, and those bills must now be heard on the floor before the deadline.

• The Senate approved the following bills on Monday: