July Legislative Update

Yesterday, the legislature adopted the K-12 School Aid Budget bill and sent it on to the Governor. The rest of the state departments and agencies will have to wait until the legislature returns in mid-July to complete the state budgets. We would not doubt if it takes until early September for the House and Senate to complete negotiations with the Administration. They have blown past their own statutory deadline of July 1 to complete the state budgets, so in many respects, the pressure is off for a short time.