Advocacy Updates
Updates on advocacy efforts that OSCC is involved in
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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