| 2023 Priority Bills | Current Status as of the afternoon of March 23
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| 1085 Reducing Plastic Pollution | This bill passed the House by a unanimous vote. It had a public hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy, and Technology on March 10. Here’s the testimony we submitted. Executive action (committee vote) was taken on March 23, with all committee members voting to pass the bill. |
| 1110 Middle Housing *new* | This bill passed the House with a vote of 75 yeas and 21 nays. The Senate Committee on Housing held a public hearing on it on March 17. Executive action (committee vote) was taken yesterday but is not posted yet. Here’s our testimony from the House hearing on this bill. Apologies for a mistake in our Action Alert — the bill is expected to stimulate 10,000 new housing units a year for the next twenty years — so we got the total right, but the time period wrong. |
| 1268 Unstacking Sentencing Enhancements | This bill passed the House with a vote of 53 yeas and 42 nays. It has a public hearing in the Senate Law & Justice Committee today and is scheduled for executive action (committee vote) on March 28. |
| 1392 (5464*) Right to Repair | HB 1392 passed in the House with a vote of 58 yeas, 38 nays. It had a public hearing in the Senate in the Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee on March 22 but has not been scheduled for executive action yet. Here is our testimony from the House hearing on this bill. |
| 1474 (5496*) Covenant home ownership fund | The second substitute bill was passed in the House with a vote of 53 yeas and 43 nays. This bill had a public hearing on March 17 in the Senate Committee on Housing. Executive action (committee vote) was today today but the result is not posted yet. See Quaker Voice earlier testimony on this bill. |
| 5120 Crisis Relief Centers | The second substitute bill passed the Senate unanimously. The Health Care and Wellness Committee held a public hearing on the bill on March 15 and scheduled it for executive action (committee vote) on March 22, but no result is posted yet. See Quaker Voice earlier testimony on this bill. |
| 5189 (1348*). Behavioral Health Support Specialists | The first substitute bill passed the Senate unanimously. It had a public hearing in the House Health Care and Wellness Committee on Friday, March 10, and was passed out of that committee on March 15. The House Appropriations Committee had a public hearing on March 22. No executive action in Appropriations scheduled yet. See Quaker Voice earlier testimony on this bill. |
1045 Basic Income pilot. This bill reached the House Appropriations Committee, but no hearing was scheduled. This bill is not going forward this year, probably because the budget is too tight for starting new programs. The bill will be eligible for action in the 2024 session, which is the second year of the current biennial session.
1087 Limiting Solitary Confinement. Reached House Appropriations but no hearing was scheduled. It now cannot go forward this year, probably because of the unexpectedly large cost projected by the Department of Corrections. See the fiscal note. The bill will be eligible for action in the 2024 session, which is the second year of the current biennial session.
Companion bills not going forward because the other version has become the “vehicle” (a sign of success):
- 1348 Behavioral Health Support Specialists
- 5464 Right to Repair
- 5496 Covenant Home Ownership Fund