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Camden: Extra special session in the making? Only time will tell
By Jim Camden
Published: June 3, 2015, 12:00am
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The mostly idle Capitol press corps — made so by the mostly idle Legislature — is struggling with a proper label for the legislative period the state finds itself in.
One could use 2SS, but the local lingo is already replete with numbers and letters. Every piece of legislation starts with an S for Senate or H for House, followed by a B for bill, then four digits, and gains more letters and digits with each significant change.
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