Highlights of Youth Legislature

All in all I think we would all agree that this was an exciting weekend at Youth Leg.
Alex spent much of Friday in the Senate, where she got to present her bill to require schools to teach both sides of the creation/evolution debate. It didn't pass, but it garnered more support than we expected. Alex also did a great job in Supreme Court -- often speaking up, so I didn't have to!
Joel's bill to require families to purchase an electric car did not pass in the House, but he was able to convince the Supreme Court it was constitutional, after amending it to allow families to still keep their gas powered cars if they owned at least one electric. (He was one of only a few bill authors who faced them that was able to accomplish that.)
Jacob's bill to ban the use of cell phones in cars did not pass in First Year, but he also convinced the Supreme Court that it was constitutional -- and gave them their best prepared argument of the day.
Aaron's bill to force public schools to allow participation in their activities by homeschoolers not only passed in First Year, it was signed into law by the Governor -- the first bill authored by a WHCS student to ever be signed into law at Youth Leg.
Elijah's bill passed in First Year, but was vetoed by the Governor. We never found out what he had against requiring first aid kits in cars...Throughout the weekend, Elijah made himself known as the one who would ask, "Do you have something against homeschoolers?"
Katie and Kayleigh were disappointed that their bill never made it to the floor in First Year to be debated, but they both enjoyed debating other bills. Kayleigh was recognized in the newspaper as one of those "who took a stand and completely shut down the chamber with their debate". And Katie helped amend the bill to improve it some.
Katie was also recognized as one of the top 16 debaters in the First Year, and then selected as the 12th alternate to National Affairs.