Friday, March 13, 2009

When will 2009 Info be Available on the General Court Homepage?

Here's a question: we're already half-way through March, and yet there's still no information about the 2009-10 session available on the General Court's homepage. For example, the bill histories page only has bill histories from last session, and treats that as if it were current.

See: http://www.mass.gov/legis/ltsform.htm

Or, the Session Laws have links back to 1997, but no links for the 2009-10 session.

See: http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/seslaws.htm

Hey Gang, we have enacted legislation already for the 2009-10 session that people would like to see! Okay, so far it's only one piece of legislation. It's Chapter 1 of 2009, relative to expanding the Governor's Authority to Address Deficiencies in Revenue. (How do I know this? Because I'm subscribed to the InstaTrac system.)

However, last night the House and Senate enacted House Bill 3415, a supplemental appropriation providing an additional $96.8 million in spending for this fiscal year. It's been laid before the Governor. It might be nice to see the enacted version of that on the Legislature's homepage before it becomes yesterday's news.

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