Most of the action this week was in the governor’s office as the House and Senate continued to battle over education. The governor vetoed a few more bills and signed some others.
Budget subcommittee and committee chairs have started having meetings to work on finishing up the budget but rumors of a special session have started due to speculation that the education issue and the budget cannot be wrapped up on schedule by the last Friday in May. We will see what happens. In the meantime, a few policy bills remain in play awaiting acceptance or rejection of amendments. Those that are rejected will go into conference committee for more work.
Bills of note that the governor has signed:
Among the bills the governor vetoed in the last two weeks were: