Legislation

Echoing a positive change made to the House Rules, the Senate Rules include the requirement for a minimum 24-hour advance posting of substitute bills up for consideration.

In a long overdue overhaul of the Open Meetings Act, this legislation would have strengthened language in the existing law and addressed technological advancements which have occurred since the OMA was last comprehensively amended two decades ago.

In a remarkably quick beginning to the legislative session, a resolution to adopt rules for the House of Representatives for the years 2019-2020 made its way out of committee and to a floor vote within the first two weeks of the session.