Comments on: Vote on Texas poker bill on Friday House calendar

By: DanM

DanM — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:38:18 +0000

I don’t know the answer to that. I think “second reading” is the house vote, but i’m not 100 percent sure.

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:20:35 +0000

A point someone brought up to me over on 2+2 said this would be the second reading of HB 222. Doesn’t that mean it’ll have to get to the third reading before a vote actually takes place?

By: DanM

DanM — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:20:22 +0000

P.S. They do move the bills around sometimes. I think the Speaker of the House has authority on that … and though he says it has no impact on his votes, this is where having a dude with a longtime family history in the horse-race biz holding the gavel probably helps us out.

By: DanM

DanM — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:18:53 +0000

Yeah, this is hardly buried — I didn’t even make it to the halfway point on the scroll bar. In 2007 we were in the bottom quadrant.

And that’s exactly what it means … the House will have a brief(?) debate and vote yay or nay … either we die there or move on to the Senate.

By: Kevin Mathers

Kevin Mathers — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:57:15 +0000

I assume the way bills are on the calendar that’s the order they’ll be voted on. But either way, this will get an up or down vote?

By: DanM

DanM — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:29:17 +0000

LOL, it’s true. Moving on, vote tomorrow or supposedly Monday.

I wrote the post that follows this one last night … about yesterday.