Even committee chairs stood in the line outside the Clerk’s Office.

Today’s the deadline to introduce your legislation and be guaranteed a public hearing.  (A vote on your bill still remains within the discretion of the committee chair.)

I was in that line – with four more bills, for a total of 29.

All of those great ideas – policy initiatives, solutions to constituent problems, and bell ringers (to bring people to the table) – need to be submitted by 5:00.

Legislation introduced after today can clear all of the hurdles to passage, but time is your enemy in this process.