Posted by
Doug
on
February 21, 2012
House budget continues downward trend
Posted by
Doug
on
February 21, 2012
Posted by
Doug
on
February 17, 2012
Where is insurance reform in the legislative process
Posted by
Doug
on
February 17, 2012
Budget problem improves without legislators doing anything
Posted by
Doug
on
February 17, 2012
Tomorrow, in the House Education Committee, there will be a “lame duck” hearing for HB 2765, a bill to establish standards for classified and certificated employees who perform deaf interpreting to students. The bill is not expected to go anywhere …
Posted by
Doug
on
February 8, 2012
Waiver bill amendments don’t materialize
Posted by
Doug
on
February 8, 2012
Insurance reform slowed but not stopped
Posted by
Doug
on
February 8, 2012
Insensitive insurance brokers making money while classified employees drown
Posted by
dougnelson
on
February 3, 2012
It wasn’t pretty, but we did get the comprehensive health insurance reform bill out of the Senate Health and Long Term Care committee. SB 6442, was shepherded through this committee by Chairman Senator Karen Keiser. At the end of the …
Posted by
dougnelson
on
February 3, 2012
Well maybe not exactly but very close. Today was the first cutoff for bills and all three waiver bills, HB 2215, HB 2479, and SB 6050 did not make it out of committee. In legislative terms, they died. However, in …
Posted by
Doug
on
January 27, 2012
Insurance showdown in Senate Health Care Committee
Posted by
Doug
on
January 27, 2012
Reducing days makes paupers of classified employees
Posted by
Doug
on
January 25, 2012
Senate health care reform bill debate on Thursday
Posted by
Doug
on
January 25, 2012
Catching up with legislative debate on charter schools
Posted by
Doug
on
January 11, 2012
Initial debate on insurance reform concludes
Posted by
Doug
on
January 11, 2012
Insurance Reform Debate Begins
Posted by
dougnelson
on
January 11, 2012
Posted by
dougnelson
on
December 14, 2011
Special session coming to a quick conclusion
Posted by
dougnelson
on
December 12, 2011
One step at a time: agreement is reached to take care of $500 million of the $2 billion budget problem
Posted by
dougnelson
on
December 6, 2011
It’s really hard to see any sense of urgency to get something accomplished even though there are only about two weeks to go of the special session.
