Capitol Report from Representative Mark Lawson

It’s currently Thursday afternoon, and we have reached the first milestone of this legislative session. Deadline week is now over. For the first four weeks of session, Representatives and Senators spend most of their time working to pass their bills out of committee so that they can be heard before the entire House or Senate. In the House alone, there were 1,744 bills filed for consideration. Only 460 passed.

We were able to pass many bills out of committee that were priorities to people of the state. Some of these include: