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Retirement & Health Benefits for May 21, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: May 20, 2021
The legislative session has concluded, the Governor has acted, and now as the show goes on, districts have to adjust. Clearly, the COVID virus, and...

Retirement & Health Benefits for April 23, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: April 23, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for April 16, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: April 16, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for April 9, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: April 8, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for April 2, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: April 1, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for March 26, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 26, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for March 19, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 16, 2021
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...

Retirement & Health Benefits for March 12, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 10, 2021
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....

Retirement & Health Benefits for March 5, 2021

Advocacy, Legislation, & Policy

Author: Fred Yancey • Date: March 5, 2021
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...

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