UPDATED at 12:03 pm: The House Transportation Committee Meeting was posponed due to a drafting error of the proposed amendment.

The House Transportation Committee will meet to consider SB1 at the call of the chair.

Senator Rafferty unveiled his transportation funding plan on April 16, 2013. Here is Senator Rafferty providing a summary of the proposed changes in the original proposal, and responding to questions from the press.

Senate Bill 1 was introduced by Senator Rafferty and referred to the Senate Transportation Committee on May 3, 2012. The proposal was reported as committed on May 7, 2013 and re-referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 14, 2013. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to amend the bill on June 3, 2013. The following day SB1 was amended on the floor of the senate on third consideration. Rafferty's bill passed the Senate on June 5, 2013 by 45 to 5.

Here is a bill analysis which describes the provisions contained in the current version of SB1.

Senate Appropriations will be called off the floor to consider SB360, SB725, SB726, SB727, SB728, SB729, SB1010, HB82, HB1172, and HB1437 in the Rules Committee Conference Room.

The Law and Justice Committee will also meet off the floor in the Rules Committee Conference Room to consider SB100, which is Senator Charles T. McIlhinney Jr's liquor modernization proposal. On June 18, 2013 Senator McIlhinney held a press conference to discuss the details of his proposal. The following pdf describes proposed amendments to SB100 that Senator McIlhinney released on June 18, 2013.

The Law and Justice Committee wil also consider the Representative Mike Turzai's liquor privatization proposal, HB 790.

Wendell Young, president of UFCW discussed the impacts of HB790 on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. Later that day, Speaker of the House Sam Smith provided the following comments after Second Consideration in the House. Representative Mike Sturla also offered his take on HB790 and described the difficulties faced by Republican Leader Mike Turzai before the House approved the measure by a vote of 105 to 90.

Shortly thereafter, Governor Corbett offered his remarks after final passage in the House on March 21, 2013.

On June 4, 2013 the Senate Law and Justice Committee was host a charged exchange between Senator Jim Ferlo, and Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley as the Committee solicited testimony about liquor privatization.

Photo by Natalie Cake.