TFred
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I sat in on the House Courts of Justice Committee Meeting yesterday afternoon, and the chair, Delegate David Albo had an interesting comment. He said basically there is no money for anything this year, so any bills which come to them that have a financial impact would die in committee, without even being sent to a sub-committee for further action.
As an example, he mentioned that any bills that create a new felony would receive no action. He further explained that if the financial impact statement was not zero, but could be shown to be a trivial amount or if the financial impact statement was simply a wrong assessment, then maybe they could work something out.
But to my untrained ears, it sure sounded like he said there would be no brand new felony crimes coming out of the GA this year. Apparently it costs money to create a new felony crime, although I'm not exactly sure why.
TFred
I sat in on the House Courts of Justice Committee Meeting yesterday afternoon, and the chair, Delegate David Albo had an interesting comment. He said basically there is no money for anything this year, so any bills which come to them that have a financial impact would die in committee, without even being sent to a sub-committee for further action.
As an example, he mentioned that any bills that create a new felony would receive no action. He further explained that if the financial impact statement was not zero, but could be shown to be a trivial amount or if the financial impact statement was simply a wrong assessment, then maybe they could work something out.
But to my untrained ears, it sure sounded like he said there would be no brand new felony crimes coming out of the GA this year. Apparently it costs money to create a new felony crime, although I'm not exactly sure why.
TFred