A truncated version today. Woke up at 4, took our youngest daughter to the airport. Not quite with it yet.
I’ll (try to) write a committee meeting preview for tomorrow.
Let’s first all put our hands together to celebrate the ascension of the shell of the channeled whelk to its rightful place as Delaware’s Shell Among Shells. Should, for some reason, the channeled whelk be unable to fill out its term, the bearded clam will don its tiny tiara.
Here’s the entire Session Report from Thursday.
HB 98(Paradee) passed the House. Two no votes, Kowalko and Jaques. The bill adds gray foxes, skunks and weasels to the list of animals that can be blown away by ammo. I haven’t scoured the bill thoroughly, but I’m betting that the bill differentiates between literal skunks and weasels as opposed to figurative skunks and weasels, some of whom inhabit Leg Hall. And voted for this bill. Although I relish the first time we get to hear the cry, “It’s skunk season!”
I’m a big fan of HB 229(Baumbach), which ‘allows for a conditional license for the purpose of attending school or job training for anyone who has had their license revoked for conviction of a drug offense’. Passed the House unanimously.
Today’s Senate Agenda features one bill, but it’s a good one. HB 56(D. Short) “sets certain regulations for motor vehicle data-reporting devices to prohibit the use by insurance companies of such data for anything other than consideration for premium discounts, requires disclosure to the insured of others who may gain access to such data, and otherwise prohibits insurance companies from releasing such data to others.” Quite possibly the best bill sponsored by a Republican this session. Unanimously passed the House, likely to experience a similar fate in the Senate.
The House will likely work HB 265(Schwartzkopf), which would raise about $51 million through various corporate tax increases. Consideration of the bill was delayed last week due to (a) the fact that the Secretary of State, who will carry out this law, was out of state; and (b) the absence of a couple of Democratic legislators from session, calling passage of a super-majority vote into question.
Here is the entire House Agenda.
Time for some zzzz’s.