Pour one out for these bills

And scenes from a chaotic first week back at school

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LONG LIVE LEGISLATION — Now that the Ford government has prorogued the House, a bunch of bills will die on the Order Paper. Some legislation could make a comeback — and the Opposition has already teased their fall session lineup — but we won’t know for sure until MPPs reconvene on October 4, three weeks after the original start date. For now, here are the bills that won’t make the cut:

— Government bills: There’s only one — the final proposal from the front bench before the summer recess: Bill 306, the York Region Wastewater Act. The bill — tabled by then-minister JEFF YUREK but now sponsored by DAVID PICCINI, the current minister in charge of the environment file — which suspends the Upper York Sewage Solutions assessment from 2014, which would send wastewater from York to Lake Ontario. It’s been in limbo for years — and with the bill sloughed off the Order Paper, there’s no end in sight for the saga.

— Backbench bills: Many more proposals from the back benches, otherwi…