Legislative Action

Major action in the Legislature this week includes:

Monday

10 a.m., House Hearing Room B, House Commerce and Labor Committee hearing on HB2855 to suspend hunting and fishing licenses of dead-beat dads.

1:30 p.m., Senate Hearing Room 4, Senate Labor Commerce and Trade Committee hearing on SB6669 to prohibit excessive charges for goods or services based on a customers’ gender.

3:30 p.m., House Hearing Room C, House Finance Committee hearing on HB2776 to repeal a future increase in beer taxes intended to fund health care.

Tuesday

10 a.m., Senate Hearing Room 4, Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee hearing on SB6468 to provide insurance coverage for hairpieces for bald people.

10 a.m. House Hearing Room B, House Government Operations Committee hearing on HB2866 to limit the number of bills a legislator can introduce on public money and HB2385 requiring initiative campaigns using paid signature gatherers to say so on each petition.

1 p.m., House Hearing Room E, House Children and Family Services Committee hearing on HB2335 to transfer the responsibility for child abuse and neglect investigations from the Department of Social and Health Services to local law enforcement.

1:30 p.m., House Hearing Room A, House Education Committee hearing on HB2910 to authorize a pilot program for publicly-funded, privately-operated schools and HB2721 authorizing advertising on school buses.

Wednesday

8 a.m., House Hearing Room B, House Commerce and Labor Committee hearing on HB2341 to allow the use of credit cards in liquor stores.

1:30 p.m., Senate Hearing Room 1, Senate Law and Justice Committee hearing to increase penalties for domestic violence.

1:30 p.m, House Hearing Room E, House Corrections Committee hearing on HB2734 to limit how close a sex offender could live to a public school.

Thursday

7:30 a.m., House Hearing Room E, House Children and Family Services Committee hearing on HB2704 to require birth control for mothers who gave birth to children with fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal drug addiction.

1:30 p.m., Senate Hearing Room 4, Senate Labor Commerce and Trade Committee hearing on SB6238 to relax teen work hour restrictions.

6 p.m., House Hearing Room B, House Health Care Committee hearing on HB2770 to provide insurance coverage for birth control.

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