The 2024 session not as bipartisan as some believe | NOONAN
The 2024
The session didn't have a record number of bills introduced, but it did break the high side of bill volume with 705 pieces of legislation. Of introduced bills, 525 passed both chambers and are now under
Three recently-vetoed bills offer insight into the governor's thinking. HB24-1008 on wage theft shines light on his pro-business accommodations. The HB24-1260 veto of a bill that protects workers who don't want to listen to political or religious lectures from employers adds to his business bona fides. The veto of HB24-1010 on pharmaceutical coverage by insurance companies proves his pro-business bias plus his resistance to regulation of the health insurance industry. He's only acted on just more than half of passed bills, so he has time to put his foot down on more legislation before the end of June.
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As pointed out by many sources, a majority of passed bills had bipartisan support, even if some of that bipartisanship was over the dead bodies of certain legislators. A majority of
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These three legislators were on the low end of bills sponsored and the high end of bills killed. Luck sponsored three bills. They bit the dust. DeGraaf didn't pass his five sponsored bills, and Bottoms bottomed out on his four bills. Maybe they were discouraged, which accounts for their high-end number of absences on third reading or final bill votes.
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As in previous years,
It is true a substantial majority of bills that passed this session were bipartisan, but as these records show, many
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