YEAS--Ransone, Landes, Fowler, Cole--4.
NAYS--Minchew, Sickles, Futrell--3.
The last chance for passage of a redistricting bill this session will come tomorrow when the House Committee on Privileges and Elections takes up Senator Jill Vogel’s SJR284, a Constitutional amendment (first resolution) to establish a Redistricting Commission.
The last
meeting of the Senate Education and Health Committee followed at 7:45 AM. The committee reported Delegate Peter
Farrell’s HB1320, which prohibits requiring teachers to pay for college courses
to satisfy license renewal requirements.
They also
reported Delegate Tag Greason’s HB1672 which repeals A-F.
In a very
disappointing party-line vote the committee reported and re-referred to the
Senate Finance Committee, Delegate Dave LaRock’s HB2238, a public-money to
private and home-school bill. Actually,
the money can even go to car dealers – read the bill. If we are unsuccessful in killing this bill
in the Finance Committee on Monday, you will be hearing much more about it as
we head into the floor fight.
The major
disappointment of the day, came when Senator Ben Chafin’s SB866, the bill to
provide local school divisions with a statewide health insurance option,
suddenly disappeared from the docket of the last meeting of the Compensation
and Retirement Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. When I asked why, I was told the House Appropriations
Chair had made the decision. After
coming out of the Senate on a 38-0 vote, the bill was never heard in the
House. That is not the way government
should work! 
