For
the fear of being too verbose, I’ve duplicated (from the Spring Educational
Conference) a concise timeline of events that have occurred in our legislative
campaign since our last educational conference in 2001.
I truly believe we are extremely close to having
Governor McCallum sign our bill into law. So
check that email frequently and be on the lookout for a very short notice of a
potential signing date
04-01-01
·
2001 WPS
Spring Conference
I have identified five milestones that we needed to pass
on our way to a successful legislative campaign. The Hurdles are as follows:
Hurdle #1 Assembly
– Committee Public Hearing/Executive Vote
04-04-01
·
Public
hearing before the Assembly Committee on Public Health – AB 256
04-18-01
·
Executive
vote by the Assembly Committee on Public Health Vote of 7 to 0
Hurdle #2 Senate –
Committee Public Hearing
10-16-01
·
Public
hearing before the Senate Health Committee
o
There was
concern about the initial response from the chairman – licensure vs.
certification
o
Hurdle
#3 Assembly
- Floor Vote
11-06-01
·
Assembly
floor vote on bill AB-256 after reaching a middle ground with Rep. Foti on a
grandfather clause that we can both live with.
o
Vote of
94 to 4
Hurdle #2 Senate –
Committee Executive Vote
02-20-02
·
Executive
vote by the Senate Health Committee after considerable lobbying by Sens.
Erpenbach & Meyer
o
Vote of 9
to 0
Hurdle #4 Senate –
Floor Vote
03-12-02
·
After
much consternation with Sen. Chvala to get the bill scheduled during the waning
days of the legislative session. Once
we got the bill scheduled for a vote on the floor, it passed rather
unceremoniously and fortunately was dipped by Sen. Burke out of the JFC.
The bill is then directed to the Governor for his signature or veto.
o
Vote from
the Senate floor 32 to 1
Hurdle #5 Governor’s
Signing the Bill into Law
4-27-02
·
The
Governor now has the ability to “call” for the bill. After calling for the bill he only has a matter of days to
sign the bill (@5). If he elects to
take no action on the bill, it will automatically become law – that date is
not exactly clear, but somewhere around April 25, 2002.
·
On
Tuesday, April 2, the Governor’s staff solicited (on very short notice)
certain details about the support our campaign has received from various
interest groups. The best we can
deduce from that is the Governor had with his staff to discuss and/or determine
whether or not he is going to sign our bill.
That thought is predicated on the fact that his office was willing and
interested in discussing possible event signings.
We were very hopeful that the Governor would have been able to sign the
bill at our Spring educational meeting, but unfortunately his schedule took him
out of town for the weekend. But
again, if we are in communications with the Governor’s office about trying to
construct a time and place for him to “potentially” sign the bill, one could
assume that the obvious more important fact of whether or not he is going to
sign the bill is elementary.
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