See our newspaper story for details. Also see the House roll call . The senate addresses complaints of educators who claim police are stealing their money. They passed a measure requireing law enforcement to submit reports on the amount of criminal forfiture money they are sending to the federal government, who keeps a portion and returns the rest, rather than through the state courts, who gives the money to education. See our newspaper story for details.
Lawmakers make bribery of a public official a crime again.
The Senate passed and sent to the governor legislation that reinstates what everyone thought was a law that makes it a crime for a public official to accept a bribe. The House approves banning use of credit reports for insurance coverage decisions. The House approved and sent to the Senate a meausre that would prohibit insurance companies from discriminating on the basis of information from credit reports. See our newspaper story for more information. Also see the House roll-call vote .