On 7/28/26 08:32, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
Given that the bills kind of "do the opposite" of each other, it is unlikely that a second related bill would progress far enough to cause conflicts without first being amended or re-drafted entirely. This is the kind of thing that various staffers and legal experts on Capitol Hill are supposed to help catch long before it happens. ...
I believe recency, not primacy, dominates. A bill enacted this year undoes a contradictory bill passed last year. Does the sane principle apply to measures passed an hour apart? Must the later one explicitly repeal the earlier? -- gil
