Retirement

The biennial budget, worked out in secrecy, will supposedly be released after this report is due. Dollars drive or kill policies, so there may be...

Both houses are engaged in moving bills back and forth in order to get agreement from both bodies on a specific piece of legislation. A...

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...

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...

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...

This second half of session is just a repeat of the first half except each house is hearing the bills that passed the opposing chamber....

Debates and voting also known as ‘Floor’ action have continued throughout the week. The pattern seems to be that for every three or four bills...

Both Houses are focusing on ‘floor’ action. They have primarily voted to pass bills that have the support of both parties. Proposals that do not...