Episode Notes

Disappointment abounds in this week's episode, from opening to close. But we start off giving people more info on how a bill gets written, and what qualifications someone needs to run for office (hint: not many). In the middle, we go over the long list of bills the General Assembly worked on the week of May 20th. The GA is now on a break while the Joint Finance Committee finalizes budget decisions, and will be back in session next week. We round out the episode with a personal story from the host that leaves her with more questions than answers about her House Representative.

Links

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Division of Legislative Services Staff

House Speaker: Income tax reform may be delayed

Babies smacked, slapped, knocked over at Delaware day care, then director lied to parents about state’s investigation

Examples of what a bill looks like

HB 142 - edits that remove permission for citizen's arrest

HB 153 - edits that make citizen's arrest illegal

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro and outline

(4:14) Who actually writes the bills?

(14:14) House Speaker speaks on delay of tax bracket bill

(24:28) House bills

(24:55) Affordable housing through Site Readiness Fund

(26:55) Slate of immigration bills

(29:59) Increasing vehicle fees

(31:43) multi-level marketing schemes

(32:10) Creates new crime charge for discharging a firearm in public

(35:00) Elimination of citizens’ arrests

(36:02) Threshold for automatic election recounts

(36:19) Protecting seniors from property reassessments

(38:23) Constitutional amendments for voting

(39:43) Senate bills

(40:06) right to marry

(41:29) rape kits monitoring

(41:42) Dental usage of general anesthesia & Medicaid dental coverage

(43:11) Bills related to evictions of renters

(44:18) Reducing property taxes for Low Income households

(49:31) Interaction with my House representative

(1:02:20) Closing