Green was seen on the voting machine in the Senate Chambers during an evening session today as 16 bills passed and eight more completed legislation on day number 57 of the 1st Session of the 79th Legislature. Of those bills completing legislative action,
House Bill 2839 would eliminate the definition of “intractable pain” in the Management of Pain Act and replaces it with the definition of the word “pain,” currently in use by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathy. Rather than using the meaning of “intractable pain,” a state of pain having a cause that cannot be removed, the Management of Pain Act will adhere to the definition of “pain,” meaning an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage.
House Bill 3196 would declare certain claims against the state and its agencies to be moral obligations of the state to pay using public funds, and directs the Auditor to issue warrants for the payments to be made.
Fourteen bills advanced to third reading today in the Senate. Of those bills advancing, House Bill 2541 would include poultry among those domesticated farm animals or stock which the owner would be liable for damages caused by those animals when they enter on the property of another.
The following committees will meet tomorrow:
Finance – 9:00 a.m. – 451M
Judiciary – 9:30 a.m. – 208W
Rules Committee – 10:30 a.m. – 451M
Agriculture- Following Morning Floor Session – Rear of the Chamber
Education- 2:00 p.m. – 451M
Finance – 3:00 p.m. – 451M
The Senate will reconvene tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.
