“Things went very smoothly for the death penalty this session,” a reporter began an interview with me this weekend.

 

`“In retrospect, it seems that way after a bill passes,” I replied, “but along the way many decisions were made that turned out to be right.”

 

I hope that comes as no surprise to you.

 

I hope that this diary has given you some insight into the process by which a bill becomes a law or does not.

 

Last night, for instance, the Senate version of one of my bills needed to be enacted.

 

Around 9 pm, it passed the Senate.  I wanted to make sure it didn’t get lost in the pile of bills on the Speaker’s rostrum.

 

I spoke to one of his aides about it.  The bill was on the rostrum. She knew it was the crossfile (Senate version) of my bill.

 

Soon thereafter, it was taken up and passed.

 

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My end-of session summary can be found at http://www.delsandy.com/2013-session-summary/