Newsletter, April 22, 2021
As we draw near to the end of the session the schedule becomes fairly routine. We gavel in, we caucus on the bills we intend to debate that day, we wait while Democrats file amendments, then we debate those bills. What isn’t routine is that on some days we are done by early afternoon, and other days we go well into the evening. We begin each day not knowing when we will be done.
One of the more significant bills this week that we passed in the House was the Administration and Regulatory budget that includes many of the state government functions such as the governor’s office budget, Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Capitol building expenses, and many other items. Included in this budget was also the appropriation for the Broadband incentive program of $100 million that will be overseen by the office of the Chief Information Officer. This appropriation now goes to the Senate.