Mine is not the only green jobs legislation introduced this session.

I learned last week that the other bill died because its projected cost was “just under $600 million.”

To avoid the same fate, I wrote our fiscal staff:

“It is my intention that HB 268 be funded with either existing resources or federal stimulus money. If the fiscal note writer believes that this is not the case, please let me know so that I can draft an amendment to that effect.”

I won’t have to contact the Amendment Office. I was told that the fiscal note for my bill is zero.

My email didn’t make it so, but it’s better to ask than to be surprised.

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I ended Monday at dinner with Sister Helen Prejean.

I haven’t read her autobiography or seen the movie, Dead Man Walking.

So I listened to try to learn what motivated her opposition to the death penalty.

There are two factors: the class bias of the justice system, especially in her home state of Louisiana, and an execution’s degrading effect on humanity – for both the prisoner and those who carry out his death.