General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., January 10, 2024

I’m finally back online following a morning w/o internet or TV service.  My wife suggested I read a book.  I tried.  Too many words.

Yesterday was the Story Of Dueling Resolutions–one asking our delegation and President Biden to support a cease-fire in Gaza, and one doing absolutely nothing.  You don’t need me to tell you which one passed.

Before you ask what’s the point of resolutions like these, just remember that Chris Coons regurgitates whatever Netanyahu digests, that LBR voted for a House Resolution equating opposition to Israeli military operations with anti-semitism, and feckless Joe Biden tries on different approaches virtually every single day.  As to the one that passed, that one has no point at all, other than to, what, express the General Assembly’s support for ‘our common humanity and the shared strength of our diversity’.  Which proved too much for three Rethug senators, Lawson, Richardson, and Wilson, who share nothing in common with humanity, and voted that way.  I kid, it’s that diversity thing they dare not support.  Still not over that Civil War.

Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report.

Today’s Senate Agenda looks uninspiring, but at least they have one.  We already have our first Special License Plate bill of the year, this one sponsored by Lumpy Carson.  It already passed the House, and it ‘creates a special license plate to help underwrite Youth and Conservation Day for the Delaware Ducks Unlimited youth members known as Greenwings’:

Only one Senate Committee meeting today featuring yet another Special License plates bill.  I do like SB 197 (Hansen), though.  Native plants are the only way to go. SB 197 ‘revises State procurement rules to require that beginning January 1, 2026, state agencies under Chapter 69 of Title 29 must purchase only native plants, including cultivars and hybrids of native plants, in the development of new landscaped areas and in the rehabilitation of exiting landscaped areas.’

House Bill 285 (Osienski) ‘amends the Delaware Medical Marijuana Act by removing the requirement that a patient have a debilitating medical condition to qualify for a registry identification card, instead allowing health-care providers to make the determination of whether a patient has a diagnosed medical condition for which the patient would receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from the use of medical marijuana.’  Health & Human Development.  It took me so long to post this that the bill has now been released from committee.

Other than two House bills designed to correct screw-ups in bills that were previously passed, that’s the only bill of interest.

No House Agenda today.  Hey, things must be pretty busy over at the Police Athletic League, so it’s tough for a Speaker masquerading as a part-time legislator.  (Or is it a full-time legislator masquerading as the Chief Executive of the Police Athletic League?)  Somehow, that distinction is not cost-effective.

Back tomorrow.  Please tell me that it’s not time for John Carney’s State of the State address yet.