Star Bond Update

The Star Bond legislation is being tagged onto another Senate Bill which is relatively unrelated.

You can access the status and bill texts by clicking on the following links.
SB2093 - Status
SB2093 – Text
House Amendment 2 – Star Bond

SB2093 amends two sections in the “The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act” and one section of “The State Finance Act”. These changes are eleven pages long. SB2093 has one Senate Amendment and two House Amendments, the second of which is still pending.

The Senate Amendment is one page and directly reflects changes to the wording of SB2093. The House Amendment One amends another section of the “The Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act” that was not previously covered in the original wording of SB2093, this amendment is also about one page long.

House Amendment 2 as filed by Representative Holbrook on 1/11/10 is the Star Bond Legislation. It is 288 pages long and from what I can see offers no value to SB2093.

I understand this is how many pieces of legislation get passed. I have to wonder what the intention of making it an amendment here is. I don’t know enough about it but maybe SB2093 is important enough that it will get passed by those who would not like to see Star Bonds be enacted. Was it added as an amendment to another bill so as to not draw as much attention as it did last fall? Whatever the reasoning is I would still encourage you to call your Representatives and let them know what you think about the amendment.

The local opposition from all areas of our government is too strong to waive off as jealousy that the development is not in their community. The concern is from communities near and far to the site location.