The House Administration Committee advanced two bills — one establishing Diwali as a state celebratory holiday and one requiring background checks for the Office of Auditor of Accounts — while defeating a proposed constitutional amendment that would have required a three-fifths supermajority to suspend House rules.
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Chair Harris argued the bill creates more barriers than benefits and could limit the legislature's ability to respond at a time when timing really matters and when unprecedented situations arise daily. Spiegelman countered that if a bill truly has emergency support it would reach three-fifths anyway, and offered to amend the bill to exempt declared states of emergency, but Harris stated she still could not support it.
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“Diwali is a five day festival of lights. It represents prosperity, light over dark, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance. Diyas are lit, families wear new clothes, mithai are exchanged and the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi is prayed to.”
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