House committee to consider remainder of proposed constitutional amendments

The House Committee on State Agencies and Governmental Affairs will consider the remainder of the proposed constitutional amendments filed on the House side in a few hours before referring a few of them to the joint committee that will meet next week. Chairman Rick Saunders has helped organize the House efforts to build a consensus on a few of them that should receive approval. The joint committee will refer up to three proposed constitutional amendments to both chambers of the legislature for approval, who may in turn approve them to be referred to the voters, and the proposed constitutional amendments will appear on the November, 2010 ballot.

It's difficult to handicap the three likely candidates at this stage, but I'd say the leaders include some combination of HJR1003/HJR 1004 (interest rate limits), SJR6/HJR1007 (restructuring of Amendment 82), SJR3 (hunt/fish), and HJR1013 (investment in technology based enterprises).

Update (11:15 a.m.): We're meeting now and are referring three bills to the joint committee:

HJR1003 (interest rate limits - gov't only)
HJR1004 (interest rate limits - more expansive)
HJR1007 (Restructuring Amendment 82)

HJR1013 (investment in technology based enterprises) failed with 8 "ayes." We may redouble efforts to try and get that one out to the joint committee as well.