Statewide minimum wage increase passes.

Altamirano promised the Dooda Desert Rock people that SB 431 is effectively dead this session.

Will still keep my eyes open.

HB 823/a: Prohibit Certain Acts by Public Officers/HHGAC Amended. SFL #1 Ingle .169727.1 -- friendly amendment, applies to campaign contributions and gifts but does not include food. Feldman: section a refers to act of giving, section b refers to act of accepting. Two very different acts. Pass voice vote.

SFL #2 .169740.2 Grubesic. Strikes words "or indirectly" to narrow scope. Pass voice vote.

Debate of bill. Grubesic to close. Pass 35-0.

HB 1012. Jennings would appear to have no idea either what he's sponsoring or amending. Everyone's lost patience, I've stopped listening. The bill passes.

Messages from the House.

Committee Reports.

Conference Committee Reports.

Announcements and Miscellaneous.

Third Reading. Consent Calendar #1.

HJC/HB 1155/ec Election Code Procedure Revisions. Lopez explains. Rawson objects to 3rd party candidates having 21 days after primaries to register. Lopez calls expert witness, Daniel Ivy-Soto(?) from Secretary of State. New deadline in bill actually shortens existing time needed for 3rd party candidates. Rawson drafting handwritten floor amendment. Pass over. To Nava for

HB 35/aa School Principal Salary Calculation Changes/HEC/HAFC Amended. PPass 33-4.

* Item 43: HJC/HB 1155/ec Track 34: 1m. No amendment after all. Thank you Senator Rawson for wasting our time. Pass 37-0.

* HB 1015 Increase Hospital Funding Mill Levies. Taylor, carrying for Silva: Longer term allows for longer-term planning.

SFL #1 .169486.4 Lopez: adds on page three paragraph e with enumeration under there -- oy vey -- she just lost me. Money earmarked for indigent care is not being accounted for. Minzner says there is a memorandum of agreement between UNMH and (?). Amendment therefore limits scope. Track 38. Annual report on County Commission's expenditure of mill levy funds to UNMH. Sounds like a reasonable amendment to me. Board of Commissioners didn't come to Senate Rules Committee hearing no this bill. Amendment will not change funding, only term of mill levy in hopes of waking up county commission. Amendment passes voice vote.

Debate on bill. Taylor to close. Pass 37-0.

Item 46: HB 363: not worth the keystrokes. Youth holiday.

Item 49: HB 518/a Students with Disabilities Scholarship Act/HFL Amended. Pass 39-0.

Item 50: HB 1055/aa Use of Terms for Persons with Disabilities. Pass 37-0.

HB 491/aa/ec CDL Requirements/HTPWC/HJC Amended. Ensures compliance w/ federal guidelines and continuance of federal highway funds. Pass 37-1

* Item 91: HB 1140/aa Alt. Native American Voting Locations/HHGAC Amd./HVEC Amd. Lovejoy.

SFL #1 .169718.1 Adair Track 51-52. Restores language agreed on in SRC. Allows for mobile voting vans. Lovejoy debates: not friendly amendment, asks body to vote down. Sen. Ryan: does amdt reflect concurrence passed last night on similar bill? Lovejoy: concurrence vote was 18-16. Adair: reflects will of the Senate to pass out with amendment. Asks vote by acclamation. Voice vote. Nos have it.

Lovejoy moves do now pass. Pass 38-0.

* HB 694: Require Health Insurance from Parents. Same as SB 296. Griego presents. Carraro says there's no FIR. Here we go. Track 59. McSorely explains: judge says whoever has cheaper/better health insurance (I presume in divorce) has children placed under his/her policy. Yes, is divorce. Carraro's question is about custodial/noncustodial parent. McSorely says places discretion in judge's hands. Rawson rises to clarify a point. Pass 34-0.

HB 1103 Repeal DWI Program Fund. Jennings to present. Now I go to the bathroom. Pass 41-0.

* HB 902 Taylor Clarifies existing authority of state police to close highways during emergencies. Interstates, Highways, and US Highways. Track 69~. Taylor to respond to Jennings who is adamant local volunteer firefighters &c. not give up jurisdiction to state police. First respondents *will* proceed as they need to but State Police have authority in the event that they arrive on the scene: in case of multiple jurisdiction, State Police become not incident commander. President has to remind Taylor and Jennings to go through the chair. Ortiz y Pino: how many state police on duty any given time? About 300 statewide now but varies. Ingle rises points out Jennings is volunteer firefighter. Jennings says he doesn't have a working radio and would have to call the sherriff and it might take several hours for state police to show up.

Track 77 Carraro rises. Finally -- Pass 38-0.

Senator Sanchez moves that order of business Concurrence. Senate Concurrence Calendar No. 9.

SEC/SB 355/a Pass voice.
SB 456/a Pass voice.
SB 581/a Pass voice.
SB 324/a: Increase State Minimum Wage. Altamirano. One change only, in preemption changed from 7 years to 2 years point at which municipalities can raise their minimum wages. Track 87. Moves concur. Pass voice. Challenge to ruling of chair. Yes upholds the chair. No overrules.

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Ruling of Chair upheld by 22-20.

Statewide minimum wage increase passes.