Week 13 Legislative Recap

Week 13 Legislative Recap

Week 13 Legislative Recap For the remainder of the session, we will focus on bills that have been signed or vetoed at the Governor’s desk as well as the upcoming bills that deal with the budget. Criminal Justice A number of criminal justice-related measures passed the...
Week 12 Legislative Recap

Week 12 Legislative Recap

Week 12 Recap (May 2) Bills continued to fly this week as they passed the Governor’s desk for signatures. Criminal Justice Some very good news in the criminal justice realm came through as the Governor signed some positive bills. HB 3316, which makes automatic...
Week 11 Legislative Recap

Week 11 Legislative Recap

Week 11 Recap, April 25 Leading up to the final deadline of the 2022 legislative session, both houses rushed to hear bills from their opposite chamber by the close of session on April 28. This meant many late nights and some questionable dealings to push bills...
Week 10 Legislative Recap

Week 10 Legislative Recap

As bills advance, many of them are being signed into law. Those with emergency clauses will become effective on signing; others will become effective at dates written into the language of the bill. This quickly moving segment of the legislative session is crucial to...
Week 9 Legislative Recap

Week 9 Legislative Recap

The 9th Week of the legislative session brought another deadline: April 14th was the last day for House Measures to pass Senate committees and for Senate bills to pass House Committees, except for Appropriations and Budget Committee bills. One reason that the House...