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RickyDaytonaJr t1_iseb4mx wrote

Reply to comment by TheGandhiGuy in Bill to allow father of an unborn child to petition the court for an injunction prohibiting the biological mother from having an abortion. by Final_Act6703

I don’t know anything about this bill, but according to the General Court docket, whatever version of the bill that’s coming out of Interim Study is scheduled for Executive Session on 10/18/22 at 1:30 PM. The bill won’t actually be dead unless they ITL it on the 18th.

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TheGandhiGuy t1_ism8a3a wrote

Eh.... there's a grain of truth there, but no. The House voted to dispose of the bill with a vote of Interim Study. They returned it to the Committee, for study, along with other bills. The committee studied them over the summer/fall, and on the 18th will go into Executive Session to vote on what those reports are, which will appear in the House Calendar at some point so everyone knows how they turned out. It's usually (IIRC) Recommended for Future Legislation or Not Recommended for Legislation. (It's been years since I served in the House, don't remember the exact verbiage and am not going to look it up.)

The bill is dead - the committee could unanimously vote that it was the most spectacularly awesome idea since sliced bread, and nothing could happen with it. The House and Senate won't be back in session to take action, there are deadlines for actions which are long past. The House politely sent it back to the committee to die.

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RickyDaytonaJr t1_ism9sjt wrote

I’ll take your word for it, as it sounds like you know more about the House’s parliamentary procedures than I do. My knowledge of Executive Session outcomes is limited to ITL, OTP, or OTP with Amendment. But, it sounds like there may be different outcomes for bills referred for interim study.

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