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Senate Report by Bryan Breitling

2023 Legislative Session Week Five

We are now more than halfway through the session. Up to now, the policy committees have been working through their bills and appropriations has heard the budgets and plans from all departments and bureaus in the state. Next up is revenue setting, which firms up the final budget to work with for next year and the one-time dollars for this year, then cross over day, which is the last day to get a bill out of the house of origin.

In our fifth week on the Senate floor, the significant bill votes included SB74 – establishing...