Difficult to turn this into anything but a ‘just the facts, ma’am’ edition.
Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. If you can turn these lemons into lemonade, you should be writing for Delaware Liberal.
Here are today’s Senate and House Agendas.
Let’s talk a little bit about HB 31, which eliminates language in the Delaware Code that is no longer applicable. Matt Bittle explains the purpose of the bill:
The proposal, which cleared the House Health & Human Development Committee and now goes to the full chamber, would make the criminal section of the code consistent with legislation passed a few years ago. It essentially would ensure that abortion is treated like any other medical procedure, House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst told the committee.
“The language in the code is unenforceable, and that’s why we are removing it,” said Rep. Longhurst, a Bear Democrat who introduced the bill.
No doubt the usual suspects will conjure up the usual ‘horribles’. But the bill merely resolves incompatible sections of the Delaware Code. The bill cleared committee in the House yesterday. It could pop up on an agenda as early as next week.
Here’s a bill that interests me. HCR 10 (Shupe) requests ‘the Division of Research, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Delaware Department of Technology & Information to cooperate in creating a detailed and implementable plan to stream audio and video of all floor and committee action of the House of Representatives and Senate; record all such material; and make these recordings available to the public via an online archive.’ Any bill that increases public access to the legislative process is a bill that I can support. It has some bipartisan sponsorship. Perhaps unfortunately, it has been assigned to the House Administration Committee. So I guess it depends on how Our PAL Val is feeling on any given day as to whether it escapes the committee’s clutches. I hope it does.
That’s about all the lemonade I can squeeze out for today. Don’t forget to Spring Ahead this weekend.