Here’s a list of Senate bills awaiting third reading before Thursday’s “First Crossover” deadline. [Note: Sorry for the earlier 404 error. The link has been corrected.]
The problem is that it was sent to me by a friendly senator.
I don’t think the list is available to the public yet, although the internal legislative computer system, accessible to legislators and staff, will provide the list on request.
A tweet from the Hawaii House Democrats on Saturday referred to the bills awaiting action. Any bills that are going to survive this point in the session have to be passed by their originating body by Thursday, March 8, a key deadline known as “First Crossover.”
Here’s their tweet:
After first decking, House will be voting on 286 measures on Tuesday, March 6. Session starts at 9 a.m.
The House appears to know what those 286 bills up for third reading will be. But does the public?
Apparently not.
I’ve been looking through the House and Senate web sites, and don’t see any publicly available information on those pending bills. I could have missed an available link, but it doesn’t appear.
It would be simple to provide a link to a summary of all bills that have passed second reading and are awaiting third reading. The internal legislative computer system provides exactly this information on request. But the public doesn’t have access to it.
I was reminded that the bills that were ready for the first decking deadline on Friday are listed on the orders of the day for the Friday sessions. But that’s pretty “inside baseball.” Wouldn’t a direct link be much more friendly to the public?
The a digest of third-reading bills to be considered in caucus tomorrow doesn’t appear to be accessible to the public, although there’s obviously nothing confidential there.
A quick fix should be easy to accomplish.
And, obviously, I’ll post the House version if someone forwards it to me.
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Your Senate digest link is 404.
I used to write the House digest for a few years. I am curious to see what a Senate digest looks like these days… and the House’s, too.
I’m not sure there is a House digest this year; from what I’ve seen, they’re not terribly useful (at least since Doug stopped doing them!).
Now that the link is fixed, I’m not overly impressed with the Senate digest this year.
It is nice that all of the testimony is now scanned and only a click away. However, the digest as I used to do it had a much more thorough summary of each bill, as well as a list of supporters and opponents that did not require a reader to go pawing through the testimony. Of course, that meant somebody (i.e. me, and, at crunch times, a small team) had to read and produce all of that information…
Ah, the good old days.
Maybe you can enlighten me (us) on how the committee reports are supposed to work. I’ve been following several bills that have been deferred in committee, but no committee report has been posted. Why is the public left to guess the reason(s) for deferral?
Committee reports are only required for bills that are approved.
Easy, tiger. This is a 404 page.
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When is Doug going to go back to work on Poinography? Big Puka yet to be filled!
( grumble, grumble; rant,rant…. )
It would certainly be lovely if the legislative website, as it continues to evolve, could allow for these kinds of spreadsheets as Ian’s linked to here to be produced, with the inclusion of the links to the bill status/testimony. Currently, one can create reports with a laundry list of identified bills one may be tracking, but then one looses the links when moving the bills into an excel spreadsheet. Its not as useful as the spreadsheet Ian has just shared with us.
The new website is really great – and major kudos to everyone who worked on it! Still, I think a ‘suggestion box’ could help continue to make it even more functional for everyones use.
Both Doug AND Dave need to get back on-line.
And just wait for the legal ads to be removed from the newspapers and posted on a government website….that should be a hoot.