Senate Hurries Bills Ahead of Budget Meetings

Submitted by Kevin Derby on March 30, 2011 - 11:08am

Senators cleared the way for 18 bills deemed "uncontroversial" to make their way swiftly through their final committee stop on the way to the floor Wednesday. Each bill hadbeen scheduled for a full hearing in the Budget Committee Friday, but senators voted to clump the bills into a consent agenda that could be voted on as a whole.

Senate Rules Committee Chairman John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, said the bills had not received a single negative vote in previous committees. The move is expected to clear time for the Budget Committee to hash out its budget talks.

Here are the bills set for a quick passage Friday in the Budget Committee:

Senate Bill 138

SB 240

SB 244

SB 246

SB 312

SB 330

SB 382

SB 400

SB 464

SB 514

SB 626

SB 634

SB 638

SB 702

SB 960

SB 968

SB 1142.

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