Advocacy Updates
Updates on advocacy efforts that OSCC is involved in
Monday, May 13, 2019
House and Senate Republicans ground the session to a crawl last week as both caucuses employed tactics designed to slow the pace of the session. Senate Republicans simply did not come to the capitol and effectively denied the necessary quorum to conduct Senate business.
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Monday, May 6, 2019
We think that things will start getting more interesting now that the major $2.8 billion business tax passed the House 37-21.
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Monday, April 29, 2019
Negotiations are underway on what a "go home" package of legislation would be for legislative Democrats who hold strong majorities in the legislature.
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Monday, April 22, 2019
From a business perspective, the 2019 session can be distilled into four primary categories.
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Monday, April 15, 2019
The second half of the 2019 session is now underway.
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Monday, April 8, 2019
By Tuesday, April 9th, all bills need to be voted out of their original committee in order to survive. This is the turning point of the session. Priorities get whittled down and the playing field becomes clearer as extraneous legislation falls by the wayside.
We will know much more on Wednesday morning as committees will work into the evening up until the very last moments on Tuesday evening.
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Monday, April 1, 2019
We've passed the first major deadline of the 2019 legislative session.
Bills needed to have been scheduled for committee votes by the end of this past Friday in order to stay alive. By Tuesday, April 9th, all bills need to actually be voted out of their original committee in order to survive.
At this point, it looks like about half of all legislation is now dead.
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Monday, March 25, 2019
The next two-and-a-half weeks will be the toughest weeks of the session.
Looming deadlines mean that all 3,000 of the bills currently introduced will be in play as advocates rush to meet deadlines that mean life or death for their legislation.
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Monday, March 18, 2019
This is the week that Senate President Peter Courtney is slated to return to the legislature from his 10-day 'medical leave.' Many have speculated that President Courtney will take the opportunity to step away from leadership and the legislature, but we have no reason to believe this is the case. We expect him to return.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
We want to update you on the tax discussions that are taking place now.
The Joint Student Success Committee (Revenue Subcommittee) is considering various options to raise $2 billion per biennium from the business community for K-12 and other education initiatives.
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