After passing lots and lots of appropriation bills, the Senate has now adjourned until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. The House is close behind, having also passed lots and lots of budget bills; it’s now debating its final bill of the day, SB 1380, the budget bill for the state Tax Commission for next year.

UPDATE: The House has now adjourned until 9 a.m. Majority Leader Mike Moyle told the House, “We left a few bills so we have something to do in the morning; we do not have much left to do.”

In a rare move, Moyle not only declared a potential conflict of interest on the Tax Commission budget, he asked unanimous consent to be excused from voting on it, and it was granted. So he abstained from the 61-2 vote to pass that budget bill. The two "no" votes were from Reps. VanderWoude and Perry.