Legislative Updates

Week nine – Sine Die       2022 was a remarkable legislative session!    Last Friday was cut-off for bills to be out of the opposite house and since that time the legislature has been passing bills necessary to implement the budget, the...

One week to go!    5:00 today was the cut-off for bills to be out of the opposite house. The Senate adjourned late, late, last night (12:20 am on March 4th), and the House met until much later. Legislators were all working very hard to get through...

The week was full: budget releases, hearings, executive action, hand wringing about bills scheduled prior to the policy cut-off, then fiscal cut-offs, and more! As a reminder, the policy cut-off for bills to be out of the opposite house committees...

So much happened during the past week; the house of origin cut-off has come and gone, and policy committees have been hearing and passing bills from the opposite house.  The next cut-off is February 24th which means committees have very few meetings...

Where do the weeks go? Since last Friday’s update the fiscal committee cut-off passed, and since Tuesday Feb. 8, the House and Senate have been very busy passing many, many bills, with many more to come! Both chambers will likely work on Saturday as...

The first cut-off of the session has come and gone! Yesterday, Feb. 3rd, was the cut-off for bills to get out of their policy committee of origin. Many bills made it through, but, as is the reality of every legislative session, not all did. Some of...

As week three winds down, legislative activity is really winding up! Budget discussions are well underway, policy cut-off is next Thursday, February 3, 2022. After policy cut-off, only four additional days until fiscal cut-off! Short legislative...

Welcome to the recap of week two! As you can see by the length of the Partners for Our Children bill tracker, legislators have been busy introducing, hearing, and exec’ing (passing bills out of committee) bills. Everything moves so quickly during...

Week one – Jan. 10, 2022 to January 14, 2022 Welcome to week one of the 2022 legislative session, and Happy New Year to all of you!! Although the hope was that the legislature would meet in person this year, a decision was made to be remote (for the...

Sine Die              What a memorable session!!!! Many significant policy bills passed and the operating and capital budgets included funding to address housing/homelessness, child welfare, early learning, behavioral health, TANF (a record 15%...