Legislative Update Week 5: Floor Vote Frenzy is Back!
If you’ve been active with us in prior legislative sessions you may remember floor vote frenzy– the week-ish after committee cutoffs when lawmakers are hearing and voting on bills on the Floor. Well it’s time!
In a typical session, we’d expect some of our bills to meet an early death in committee. But this year, all of our priority bills have made it out of their first committees and things look good for them all making it to a Floor vote. Shoutout to the hundreds of you taking action every single week. Legislators take notice!
This year’s floor vote frenzy is actually just one button to email your lawmakers asking them to pass the full Growing Together priority agenda!
STEP Housing – HB 2266 / SB 6069
Our STEP Housing bill had a hearing in the House Appropriations committee (where they decide how the State’s $ is spent) and will be voted on tomorrow. We feel good that this will join the rest of its Growing Together bills awaiting a vote on the full House Floor.
Encouraging Middle Housing
This year we’re not fighting for major landmark changes to housing policy– been there, won that! Instead we have a package of smaller but very good, impactful bills to help realize the fullest vision of those larger policies. And our biggest opponent is the clock- legislators only have so much time to debate and take votes- and we need them to prioritize bills that makes it easier to build housing faster and more sustainably for families at all incomes.
And that’s it! One short and sweet action for your Sunday. Once we get closer to the House of Origin cutoff (Feb 17th) we may be back in your inbox with urgent actions to be sure these bills make it through in strong form.
Onward,
Marcella