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Retirement & Health Benefits for March 13, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 13, 2020
Sine Die occurred and the 66th Legislature has concluded. The last act is the Governor’s responses to the various legislative proposals that have delivered to...

Retirement & Health Benefits for March 6, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 6, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for February 28, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 28, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for February 21, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 21, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for February 14, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 13, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for February 7, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: February 7, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for January 31, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 31, 2020
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...

Thinking About Retirement?

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 31, 2020
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...

Retirement & Health Benefit Report for January 24, 2020

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: January 24, 2020
Hearings and any resulting actions moving bills out of committees have begun as both houses move toward the first cut-off date. This is only a...

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