By Julie Pelegrin

The second regular session of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly wrapped up Wednesday, April 7, 2014, adjourning sine die at 8:22 p.m. in the Senate and 10:26 p.m. in the House. Since January, the legislators have spent many hours holding stakeholder meetings, listening to testimony in committee, and debating and amending bills on a wide range of topics from regulation of recreational and medicinal marijuana to tax credits, to flood relief, to adoption, to license plates, to criminal laws, to financing public education, to water law. (more…)

by Julie Pelegrin

The General Assembly closed out one hundred twenty days of legislative activity yesterday, May 8, by adjourning sine die at 3:40 p.m. in the Senate and 3:44 p.m. in the House. The first regular session of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly was one of the busiest in recent memory. The legislators introduced bills on many difficult, complicated, and contentious issues which led to more late-night sessions and early-morning committee hearings than the General Assembly has experienced in recent years. (more…)