The State Legislature's 2004 session is over... more than 500 bills and resolutions were passed by the legislature this session. The Governor still has about 240 bills or so to consider before the July 13 deadline. A bill can either be signed into law, pass into law without the Governor's signature or vetoed by the Governor effectively killing the bill unless both houses of the Legislature meets in special session and overrides the veto by a 2/3 margin.
The major legislation passed out early this year.
Depending on your point of view, the major issues that got tackled by the legislature this year included some kind of education reform (which some think it was while other think it was not true reform), some tightening of several drug laws (treatment was favored over incarceration for most drug offenders), delaying of the gas cap law, and the doling out of pay raises to several government sector union workers.
Depending on your point of view, you could label a lot of the legislation as either "bad" or "good". It all depends on your point of view. Several high profile bills never passed even though they may have had broad support by certain segments of the community.
More than 80 bills from the 2004 session have become law, with Governor Lingle signing most of them. Six bills so far were vetoed by her, but became law after the legislature overrode those vetoes with more than the required 2/3 majority. Three became law without her signature.
Do you think this year's legislature accomplished anything good? Or were the bills signed into law marked a further erosion of our freedom or at least monies from our pocketbooks? Do you keep up with what is going on at the legislature? Do you even care?
If you could, what letter grade (using the familiar A, B, C, D & F) would you give the legislature?
This thread is for the discussion of the 2004 Legislature.....
The major legislation passed out early this year.
Depending on your point of view, the major issues that got tackled by the legislature this year included some kind of education reform (which some think it was while other think it was not true reform), some tightening of several drug laws (treatment was favored over incarceration for most drug offenders), delaying of the gas cap law, and the doling out of pay raises to several government sector union workers.
Depending on your point of view, you could label a lot of the legislation as either "bad" or "good". It all depends on your point of view. Several high profile bills never passed even though they may have had broad support by certain segments of the community.
More than 80 bills from the 2004 session have become law, with Governor Lingle signing most of them. Six bills so far were vetoed by her, but became law after the legislature overrode those vetoes with more than the required 2/3 majority. Three became law without her signature.
Do you think this year's legislature accomplished anything good? Or were the bills signed into law marked a further erosion of our freedom or at least monies from our pocketbooks? Do you keep up with what is going on at the legislature? Do you even care?
If you could, what letter grade (using the familiar A, B, C, D & F) would you give the legislature?
This thread is for the discussion of the 2004 Legislature.....
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