Legislative Updates

Another week and another session has come and gone… AND a new session has begun!  On May 23rd, the first special session ended, and the Governor called the legislature back into session right away for a second special session.  While very few...

This is the last week of the first special session, and again there is very little to report with respect to progress on the operating budget.  While we won’t know until it happens, the expectation is that the Governor will call the second special...

The third week of the first special session is coming to an end, and the last day of the session is just around the corner, on May 23rd.  It is expected that the Governor will call for a second special session right away, but regardless, bills that...

We are closing out the second week of the first special session, and, unfortunately, there isn’t much to report. Both the House and the Senate were in on Tuesday, passing bills that had reverted to the house of origin since they had not passed out...

With very few people around, the legislature adjourned Sine Die on Sunday, April 23rd.  And also, with few folks present, the special session began on Monday, April 24th!  So, what can we expect from this point forward? It is expected that the House...

Sine Die is just days, possibly hours away…amazing!  While we don’t know what the Governor will do in terms of calling the legislature back into (special) session, we do know that the regular session ends on April 23rd.  And, it is possible that the...

Cut-off for bills to be out of the opposite house was Wednesday, April 12th.  It’s hard to believe there is just over one week left in the regular session!  Once again, as with all cut-offs, many bills died and many are still alive.  As you know,...

Fiscal committee cut-off has come and gone (April 4th), and we are moving towards cut-off for bills to be out of the opposite house (Wednesday, April 12th).  This is nail-biting time as there are a lot of bills in Rules that need to get pulled to...

Another week, another budget!  On Monday, March 27th, the House released and heard their budget.  It was then passed by the Appropriations Committee and is expected to pass the House today, Friday, March 31st.  The budget counts on over $2 billion...

The big event this week was the release and passage of the Senate budget.  The budget came out on Tuesday, passed out of Ways and Means on Wednesday, and was passed by the Senate on Thursday (or actually, early Friday morning!).  A more in-depth...