By Dillon Rosenblatt March 20, 2020
An early adjournment to the Legislature to avert the spread of COVID-19 would effectively kill a host of proposed ballot referrals.
There are more than a dozen referendums that could make it onto the ballot come November if they pass votes in the House and Senate, but none of them have advanced through both chambers.
A few have made it through the chamber from where they originated, but await their fate in the second chamber. But all of that may be rendered moot if lawmakers decide to pass a “skinny budget” and get out of Dodge.
Senate President Karen Fann has thoroughly suggested sine die will not happen because there is far too much to do outside of the budget, and there’s no way of knowing where COVID-19 will take them in two weeks or even longer.
The Prescott Republican said she favors passing the budget and then going into an indefinite recess, but no session adjournment.
