Busy Senate Rules Committee Agenda on May 23
The Senate Rules Committee’s agenda for its May 23 meeting contains a list of 21 measures whose legislative authors wish to have voted on by the upper house outside the normal procedure for debating legislation on the Senate floor.
“Without reference to file,” is the legislative term of art.
All of the bills these 21 lawmakers wish to have taken up “without reference to file” are resolutions originating in either the Senate or the lower house.
Resolutions are essentially glorified letters, which have no force of law, that commemorate some event or action.
For example, Sen. Curren Price, an Inglewood Democrat, wishes [....]
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