Thursday, May 28, 2009

Reforms passed, taxes vetoed, lobbyist exhausted

Things are moving along rapidly in Carson, with the potential to be out of here by Saturday.

As I type this, the Senate is taking up SB 427, the long-term spending reform bill, which includes changes to PERS, PEBP, and collective bargaining for local government employees that is outlined in the post below. They just voted 19-2 to send the bill to the Assembly.

As soon as this bill gets through both houses, that should grease the skids for the tax increase override vote.

That bill, which the Governor vetoed at 5 pm today (along with 19 or so other bills), has to make its way over to the Legislative Building by midnight tonight.

That should allow an override vote by tomorrow.

Other than that, there are about a zillion conference committees meeting to has out disagreements and the renewable energy bills should be wrapped up soon.