John Carney delivers his State Of The State address today. 2 p.m. I know not why. Anything of substance (insert joke here) was almost certainly addressed in his budget proposal. A victory lap for a tepid two-term governor? Perhaps. But, like his stewardship, the speech is unessential. I’m calling it: Worst Governor of the Modern Era.
Only one bill on the collective agendas today. It’s a good one: SB 20 (Townsend) ‘remove(s) the requirement that a public school district employee who donates leave to another employee must donate 2 days of leave for the other employee to receive 1 day of leave’. It was a pretty shitty requirement to begin with, so it’s good to get rid of it.
There are no scheduled committee meetings today in the Senate.
Here are the highlights from today’s House Committee schedule. Well, there’s only one:
…prohibits discrimination in life insurance based on genetic characteristics, genetic information, or the result of any genetic test that is not in a medical record as a basis for an individual’s medical diagnosis or the basis of a medical diagnosis included in an individual’s pertinent family history. In addition, this Act prohibits a person engaged in the business of life insurance from requesting, requiring, or purchasing information obtained from an entity providing direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
Good bill. Essential bill. I thought that then-Senators Blevins and Sorenson had done something similar years ago, but I suspect this bill takes it a step further. Strong bipartisan sponsorship.
Hey, man, I can only do so much with such a truncated session. Tomorrow will be meatier, I promise, as two of the RISE bills are scheduled for House committee consideration. Don’t look for in-depth analysis of Carney’s State of the State, though. I only have so many brain cells left.