Tim Sneller was a Capitol lifer, someone who spent almost 40 years on the staffs of at least nine different lawmakers, served six years as a state representative in his own right and was seeking a comeback this year.
Clean energy facilities, including those for energy storing, solar and wind, would be added to the state's prevailing wage law under legislation taken up by a House committee on Thursday.
Members of a Senate panel reported bills Tuesday that which supporters say would protect manufactured housing tenants from unjust rent hikes while opponents counter would make affordable housing more difficult to obtain.
While there are no set deadlines on various policy items before the Senate Labor Committee , its chair said he expects the panel to remain productive between now and the end of the year on policies large and small.
More than two dozen Republican floor amendments were rejected Thursday by the Senate Democratic majority as it began wading through budget bills, passing nine of its 15 budgets.
The Senate set the table Tuesday for votes on its slate of budgets later this week by adopting a slew of floor amendments and moving more than a dozen budget bills through General Orders.
Some bipartisan effort highlighted business Thursday in the Senate as it began the process of moving their slate of appropriations bills, with members of both parties acknowledging work on an amendment to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget.
The Senate voted Wednesday along party lines for legislation that would require renewable energy projects without state funding to pay the prevailing wage over objections from Republicans who said the changes were a slippery slope in expanding the prevailing wage beyond public projects.
Members of a Senate budget subcommittee included a Revenue Sharing Trust Fund proposal within its Department of Treasury budget recommendations reported Wednesday, similar to a formula included in the House's budget.
Motorists would automatically pay an extra $15 to purchase a pass to enter any state park when renewing their vehicle registration under the 2024-25 fiscal year budget for the Department of Natural Resources approved Wednesday by a Senate subcommittee.