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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Ind. Gov't. - Tracking what is happening in the General Assembly
Bryan Corbin of the Evansville Courier & Press has another excellent rundown today of legislative activities from last week, headlined "Legislature to consider toll road, marriage bills."
I'm told this is to be a weekly feature in the C&P during the session. Here is a link to earlier articles.
Today's article concludes with this look ahead at the Legislature's fourth week:
- Monday, the Senate Energy and Environmental Affairs Committee will hear three bills involving confined animal feeding operations. One bill requires notification of surrounding residents if an odor-producing manure-storage facility opens within a one-mile radius.
- The bill to create "C.J.'s Law" is scheduled for a hearing Tuesday. It's named for C.J. Martin, a 2-year-old boy who died when the November 2005 tornado roared through Evansville's Eastbrook Mobile Home Park. House Bill 1033 would require mobile homes to be hard-wired with weather-alert radios. Authored by state Rep. Phil Hoy, D-Evansville, the bill will be heard by the House Technology, Research and Development Committee.
- The Senate Homeland Security, Transportation and Veterans Affairs Committee is scheduled to conduct a formal vote Tuesday on Senate Bill 1, involving tolling authority for the governor's two privatized toll-road proposals.
- The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hear a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would define marriage as being a union between one man and one woman. Same-sex marriages already are illegal under Indiana statute, but proponents say a constitutional amendment is necessary in case the statute ever were overturned in a legal challenge.
The proposed amendment, SJR 7, already has passed the Legislature once; if it passes again, it would go before the voters in a referendum on ratification.
To follow bills already out of committee, here are the House and Senate calendars for Monday of bills on Second and Third reading.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 28, 2007 08:40 AM
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