Friday, March 6, 2009

Bad Bills Update

At the beginning of the legislative session, Badbills.com had a few that I mentioned here:

State Pancake - #LC0162 - missed deadline, probably dead.

State dog - #LC1194 - missed deadline, probably dead.

Juneteenth National Freedom Day - #LC1406 - missed deadline, probably dead.

State insect - #LC1890 - missed deadline, probably dead.

State love song - #HB184 - missed deadline, probably dead.

Revise stop requirements for bicycles - HB68 - missed deadline, probably dead.

It looks like the folks at badbills.com knew what they were talking about. But how much time and money was wasted on these that could have been spent on much more productive issues?

Maybe there should be a law....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I urge citizens to endorse SB348, which return to annual sessions, one year for budget, other for policy.

We must have a 21st Century legislature that uses the Internet, video tele-conferencing, public and 'virtual technology' town halls, and a vetting process to 'strip out' frivilous and bad bills.

If our National Guard and Reserves can operate part-time all year round, deploy to combat, deal with natural disasters, so must we have a similar model in our legislature.

Shorter sessions would allow more citizens to consider serving in a modern legislature, especially younger citizens and allow more diversity.