Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs

To order. Mr. Sed, please call the roll. Senators Linsed, Pelton R. Here. Moore, Wilson. Here. Sullivan. Here. Madam Chair. Present. Welcome everybody to the committee. Today we will hear three bills. House Bill 1084, 1113 and 1011. And it looks like we have the sponsors for House Bill 1084 in front of us. Would either of you like to start us off? Senator Weissman, thanks mad committee for hearing 1084. Today, voters of the state, pursuant to Article 5 of the Constitution, are called upon, through the exercise of the legislative power through initiative to make some very consequential decisions. Because of that, over the course of the last number of years, this legislature has either passed or invited the voters themselves to pass a couple of measures to add more information to that process through ballot titles and information in the Blue Book. When we are here debating legislation, we get fiscal notes, we have access to staff. You know, we have a legislative process that goes on for many months in which we can come to the decisions that we come to. Voters confronted with the ballot in November don't have as much of a time period…