Today’s Legislative Highlights…In Brief

It’s late, so I’m making this short.  Here are a couple of bill that’s made it through the Senate today:

Luke Kenley’s (R - Noblesville) circuit breakers made it through the Senate overwhelmingly on a vote of 41-7.  I guess this is a good thing.  No matter how hard I try to understand the whole property tax situation, the more I get confused.  And this circuit breaker idea, while sometimes sounding like a good idea, confuses me more than anything.  I just need to research it more.

In a move that’s sure to honk off those on the Fishers Town Council, Senator Jeff Drozda’s annexation bill, which prevents involuntary annexation, made through 26-22 after tying 24-24 on the original vote.  Honestly, there’s a part of me that’s happy to see it pass and there’s another part of me that thinks this bill is utter foolishness since it was designed specifically to affect the Geist annexation into Fishers by making the effective date of the bill retroactive to Fishers’ passage of an annexation ordinance last week.  This, as opposed to the original effective date of July 1st like all other legislation passed this session.

There was more action today, but these two caught my eye and others have already been written about today.