Senate Action This Week

Senate Finance Budget Subcommittees continued to receive presentations from various agencies. The full Finance Committee will likely begin debate on the budget the week of April 1st.
The Conference Committee on S.392 (Ritchie), Illegal Immigration Reform, worked on Tuesday, adopting language on a "hotline" requested by the Commission for Minority Affairs. The Conference Committee is expected to continue work, but at this time the next meeting has not been scheduled.
S.865 (Alexander), relating to property tax provisions and the homestead exemption, was given third reading by the Senate this week and was sent to the House for consideration. Other bills of interest still pending the Senate calendar include S.80 (Knotts), legislation that provides that the owner, tenant or lessee of real property is not liable in a civil action to a person who trespasses on his property or a person who is not otherwise lawfully present on the property and who is injured in an accident while on the property. S.490 (McConnell), legislation that limits attorney's fees to a reasonable hourly rate in state-initiated actions, is also pending the calendar.
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