[HoustonCurmudgeon]

There has LONG been a SENATE RULE requiring 21 of 31 votes for a bill to be taken up OUT OF ORDER.

The 21 of 31 is not a Senate Rule it is a Lt Governor ploy. The power of the Lt Governor comes not so much from the Constitution as it does the Rose Bush Debate that opened every session for the last 40 years, and accounts for the 2/3 vote needed to bring something up.

In talking to the two Reps last week they were convinced that to revisit re-districting they would need a two thirds vote in each house. I have no further information.

[Bigun]

Ah! The infamous SB-1, The Rose Bush Bill. Yes, I am well aware of that mechanism but personally think that 130 years is long enough to spend on such a thing!

I think 130 years of "conditioning" is in play with regard to what I'm hearing on this so far.

The fact that we will now have control of ALL the leavers of government hasn't yet sunk in methinks!