As I wrote on Tuesday the pace has been as crazy as expected. You can feel adjournment in the air; in fact, you’d think it was coming this weekend and not at the end of April. Here’s a quick update; refer back to Tuesday’s post for more information. Magistrate Peterson finally met with the Senate Judiciary Committee which unanimously endorsed his confirmation and the full Senate followed suit yesterday. This afternoon the retention vote was held and all judicial officers were retained.
House Judiciary began its review of S. 203 and S. 116. Family Law Section Chair Penny Benelli testified on S. 203, while Probate Section Co-Chair Mark Langan was the witness on S. 116. In addition we offered an amendment to the power of attorney section of 116 adding language to deal with In re Lovell. The committee seems prepared to adopt it.
Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee spent the morning on four bills we worked on in the House: H. 327, uniform principal and income; H. 272, private roads; H. 403, foreclosure; and H. 600, the foreclosure mediation bill.
The licensed lender bill is scheduled for a hearing later today, having been moved up from Friday afternoon. No action ye on S. 143, energy disclosure or the bill on tax department collection of the education tax. That bill contains the exemption from privacy for lawyers, bankers etc in getting the net tax bill amount from town clerks. If that bill, which is in House Appropriations, doesn’t emerge we’ll need a vehicle to carry the exemption language. We’re working on it. Stay tuned.
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