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By SEN. KEVIN MILLER
26th District
Tuesday, Feb. 16 is the last day that the Senate can take action on Senate bills or that the House can take action on House bills. Some committees are scheduling the bills. Some Senate committees and most House committees will be meeting over this weekend in order to complete their work.
Each bill or resolution is considered by at least one committee. The committee has basically three choices of action on each bill:
(1) Recommend by majority vote to send the bill to the floor of the Senate to be considered by the full membership of the Senate.
(2) Carry the bill over for consideration during the 1989 Session.
(3) Pass the bill by indefinitely (kill it).
After Feb. 16 the Senate will begin considering House bills that were passed, and the House will be considering Senate bills that have been passed. All of these bills will be assigned to the appropriate committees. Many will be killed in committee. For instance, the House bill to increase the speed limit on rural interstates, which passed by comfortable margin, may be killed in the Senate Transportation Committee. The full Senate may not have a chance to vote on a speed limit bill.
The House bill that the Senate now will be considering would raise the limit to 65 miles per hour for automobiles and leave it at 55 miles per hour for trucks. I am still undecided on this issue, but I feel that if we do change the speed limit it should be the same for both trucks and cars.
Sometimes bills are carried over to the next session to allow specific problems to be studied before enacting laws. A good example of this is a
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