Veto Session News Today

The bill from Bennington-4 Representative Seth Bongartz re-envisions Act 250 with an eye toward affordable housing and climate resilience.

Welcome back to the final Statehouse scraps column of 2024! … Or is it? Yes, the Kansas Legislature’s veto session drew to a close early Wednesday, but from all indications, Gov. Laura Kelly soon will order lawmakers back to work, ordering them to fashion yet another tax plan. Despite passing a handful of worthwhile bills, […] The post Legislature splinters into smithereens by veto session’s end, with more sausage making on the way appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

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Kansas lawmakers adjourned Saturday morning, leaving Topeka for a break in the legislative session after passing tax cuts but not a school budget.

Rep. Troy Waymaster, R-Bunker Hill, 109th Dist. Courtesy photo TopekaA

Nebraska's lawmakers have approved a set of changes to the state budget.The change reflects a three-point-one percent increase in state spending and leaves arou

DeWine vetoed the SAFE Act on Dec. 29. In a 65-28 vote Wednesday, the Ohio House decided to keep HB 68 in its original language.

Veto Session Update/Town Hall

Revised bill lifting a moratorium on new nuclear plants heads to Pritzker; non-action on Invest in Kids means tax credit program will sunset Jan. 1

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois “Invest in Kids Act”, which helps students enroll in private schools, is set to expire on December 31st after legislators adjourned from the fall veto session without taking action to extend the program. The “Invest in Kids” program was started in 2017 under the Republican administration of former Gov. Bruce […]