A brief primer on some of the terms used in the legislative reporting:

What is Executive Action? The policy committee considering the bill, votes on whether to amend the bill, and whether to pass it out of committee. If executive action is taken, it means the bill has passed out of committee and continues on in the process.

What is the Rules Committee? The Rules Committee (of both the House and the Senate) considers all bills reported from policy and fiscal committees and determines whether, and in what order, to schedule their consideration on the floor.

What happens in Appropriations and/or Ways and Means? Both of these committees are fiscal committees – the House calls it Appropriations and the Senate calls it Ways and Means. These committees write the state operating budget, which determines how state revenue is spent on the public’s priorities such as education, health care and public safety. They also must consider any policy bills that require the expenditure of state dollars that will have an impact on the budget as a whole.