Health Benefits

The session is moving toward Sine Die and there’s a great deal of unknowns still to come. It’s the part of the session where bills...

Proposed bills dealing with providing a benefit increase to those members in TRS1 and PERS 1 plans can easily be seen as NTIB (Necessary to...

Proposed bills have now either passed their respective chambers and are awaiting further action in the opposite house, or they are ‘dead’. Remember that no...

The first deadlines have come and gone. Action now shifts to the floor of each chamber. A bill needs to be brought out of the...

Legislative actions continue. As this is being written, the deadline for policy bills to leave committees has arrived. The next cut-off is February 11 for...

Since covering pension/retirement/health insurance issues on behalf of WASA and AWSP, there are a few important points we have learned. This is just a brief...

The big push has begun as bills will be moving out of their house of origin in order to clear the policy and fiscal deadlines...

Following marathon hearings by the fiscal committees in both houses, the chambers are now publicly engaged in floor action where numerous bills are debated and...

This week has been filled with committee hearings on various bills as both houses rush to hear, then vote bills out of committee, in order...