Out of control bill filings
From Gerry Cohen's bill drafting blog:
With filings today, the 4,962 total bills and 2,164 Senate bills filed in 2007-2008 are the highest since the 1913 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly saw 5,627 and 2,660 respectively. The House total of 2,798 bills filed in 2007-2008 was exceeded in the past century only by 2,967 in 1913 and 2,895 in 2005.
This confirms what anyone watching the bill filings must suspect.
What's really funny is we're in a session where there's supposed to be no money and we're supposed to get out of here faster than most years in recent history. Yet the honorables found more ways they'd like to spend money and more bills upon which they'd like to spend time.
There's a certain logic to some of this. By filing a bill, you can wave the flag for the home folks (or whatever constituency you're friendly with) and even if it goes nowhere, well, at least you filed a bill.
But one does wonder sometimes if what the honorables are thinking.
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With filings today, the 4,962 total bills and 2,164 Senate bills filed in 2007-2008 are the highest since the 1913 Session of the North Carolina General Assembly saw 5,627 and 2,660 respectively. The House total of 2,798 bills filed in 2007-2008 was exceeded in the past century only by 2,967 in 1913 and 2,895 in 2005.* Stunned Blogger Gerry
It appears that Blogger Gerry has just found that great quote in American history. " No citizen life, liberty and property is safe when the General Assembly meets"
Posted on May 30, 2008 12:44 PM