Developments on three of my bills worthy of discussion…

My referendum petition bill was slowed when a senator offered a floor amendment.  It will be debated tomorrow.

I’ve been advised not to intervene.  The Senate committee that acted on my bill will handle it.

I thought my slots bill would be heard in the Senate Finance Committee.  I called a staffer there for advice.  It will go to the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee instead, he counseled.

I ran into the B&T chair at lunch and spoke to him about the bill.

“We’ve never done this before” asserted a lobbyist testifying before the subcommittee considering my legislation to adopt Justice Ginsburg’s dissenting opinion regarding the definition of supervisor.

“Our Lilly Ledbetter law three years ago adopted another dissent by Justice Ginsburg,” I replied.

Afterwards, I remembered that we had reversed a Supreme Court case regarding pregnancy discrimination.  Our Attorney General’s Office confirmed my memory.

In 1977, we passed a law that the exclusion of pregnancy from a health plan was gender discrimination.

I’ve written a memo for the subcommittee members.