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Charter changes become law on Senate override; rental registry headed to Scott s desk
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State Sen Bruce Thompson enters race for labor commissioner
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Hawaii businesses used grant money to fund PPE production pivot (and stay afloat) Mark Carpenter © Provided by Honolulu KHNL Last year in the thick of the pandemic, the $10 million federal PPE supply chain program offered grants to small businesses to produce critical gear.
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kauai Kookie has been in the Hashisaka family since 1965, and they remember very well how the world turned upside down in 2020.
“When you ask about that time, I remember one day coming in here and we actually still have right here, some toilet paper,” said Kauai Kookie co-owner and CEO Ann Hashisaka.
“I actually sold more rolls of toilet paper than cookies many days.”
Senate committee budget vote delayed until next week
As the end of the week approached, the Senate Appropriations Committee was still finalizing FY 2022 budget details, and a planned Friday vote was pushed until Monday. On Wednesday, Committee Chair Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, expressed repeated frustration that she was still receiving bills and specific appropriation requests from committees, including H.171 (a child care bill) and H.360 (a broadband bill). Those attempting to follow the budget deliberations were likewise frustrated by the lack of documents and transparency in the process.
Some of the delay in the always-complex legislative budget process is due to the influx of federal funding coming to Vermont from the American Rescue Plan, and disagreements between the administration and the legislature on how and when ARPA money should be spent. The House-passed budget included $650 million of ARPA dollars, and the administration immediately opposed what they viewed was a prema
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Legislative Chess
It’s the time of year when the legislature plays chess. Sometimes it even plays speed chess, with programs, initiatives, and tax code changes flying in and out of bills as they move back and forth between chambers. Each chamber attempts to position its priorities to its best advantage, sometimes by holding the other chamber’s priorities as hostage.
A House committee may remove a section of a bill that its Senate counterpart spent months discussing. And vice versa. A committee may also attach one of these pieces to a different bill, using it as a “vehicle” to shore up its chances of survival. In non-COVID times, legislators play a version of three-dimensional chess, with players sitting on different floors in the Statehouse working their own individual chess boards.
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