The Senate met today to receive reports from the Finance Committee. The committee recommended 12 bills for passage. Two of these – Senate Bill 2002 and Senate Bill 2003 – were read a second time and advanced to third reading. The remaining 10 bills were taken up for immediate consideration and passed after suspension of the constitutional rule requiring a bill be read on three separate days. The bills that passed were: Senate Bill 2011, Senate Bill 2012, Senate Bill 2013, Senate Bill 2015, Senate Bill 2016, Senate Bill 2017, Senate Bill 2018 and Senate Bill 2019.
The Finance Committee will meet briefly at 2:55 p.m. today in the Senate Chamber.
The Senate is in recess until 3 p.m. today.
