Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

It was a busy week of floor action in both the House and the Senate. There were several late-night sessions and the Legislature will be...

Policy bills are being heard in their opposite houses and budget negotiations are going on behind closed doors. Bills that have been modified by the...

This week marked a significant shift to budget discussions. Both houses released and started amending their supplemental budgets for 2021, operating budgets for 2021-23, capital...

The good news is that K–12 got all the dollars they needed and more. The bad news is that April Fool’s Day ran long. Most of...

Committees continued meeting primarily to move bills out of their respective committees while concurrently, the majority party in each house released their budget proposals as...

It was a busy, busy week in the Legislature with committees having to pass policy bills out by today, Friday, March 26. Several bills were...

We reached the one-year anniversary of school closures to in-person learning this past week, and work continues to get all school buildings open once again....

Public hearing and Executive Sessions continued this week as legislators dealt with various bills received from the opposite chamber. In fact, it appears that committees...

After this Tuesday’s bill cutoff, the surviving bills switched houses and the committee hearing process started up again. This week and next week’s schedule of...