With the last committee cutoff now passed, action will turn almost exclusively to the floor for the remainder of the session. All of our request bills remain active. Our bill to protect private investment information provided to the endowment has cleared both chambers, but awaits final action to reconcile some slight language differences. Our bill on tuition setting authority for out-of-state and graduate students was deemed “necessary to implement the budget” — a designation that exempts it from the cutoff and allows it to be considered as part of final budget votes. Our bill to streamline public works contraction cleared its House committee with an amendment; we are working with lawmakers on final bill language.
Also, the bill to fix unintended consequences caused by the spending freeze put in place earlier in the session has cleared its House committee and now awaits floor action.
As always, we will continue to post updates on bill status and budget negotiations here as soon as they are available.