In a flurry of legislative maneuvers Thursday, major marijuana implementation bills first died and then were resurrected as legislators work against a looming procedural deadline.
The House will consider all three proposals next week, when lawmakers will have the chance to make amendments or blend certain provisions from each bill into a single proposal. It took some last-minute wrangling to get the legislative package out of committee, however.
"There was definitely a plan to have all three at least come to the floor to have the discussion up there," House Speaker Wylie Galt, R-Martinsdale, told reporters Thursday. "Then when one went down, there was kind of a domino effect that had to be undone to get 'em going again.â