Youth In Government news

From field reporter Eddie Batey: The YMCA’s Middle School Youth In Government (YIG) conference was held Friday at City Hall. Participating schools this year included ECS, Mt. Pisgath, MHA, St. George's, Westminster, St. Mary's and MUS.
Of 56 bills submitted by 110 delegates, only 10 bills “made it out of committee” to reach the General Assembly (GA) for consideration.

Eli Ostrow argued the merits of his proposed bill (Senate Bill 09-5-5) entitled “An Act to Institute a Payroll Tax and Lower the Sales Tax”. His bill passed with a comfortable majority of his peers’ votes. Of the 10 bills considered in GA, Eli sponsored one of only 4 that was passed in to law!

Cole Ettingoff and Thornton Brooksbank received “Outstanding Bill” recognition as judged by the adult advisors. Their bill (SB/09-2-2) “An Act to Revise the State Tax on Inheritance” was one of only two bills so recognized.

Ian Turner provided exceptional leadership before the conference as an advisor and during the conference as a presiding officer. Thank you, Ian.

Lower School participants (15) were:

Bolton, Logan

Boshwit, Jeremy

Boyd, Hal

Brooksbank, Thornton

Crosby, Andrew

Ettingoff, Cole

Jampana Raju, Srujan

Lamb, William

Lynn, Grayson

Mayzell, Ryan

Ostrow, Eli

Oxendine, John

Shah, Aditya

Shah, Amit

Weaver, Mack