Haight Partner Greg Rolen Testifies About SB 907 Before the California State Assembly
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Early Returns Podcast - Jan Baran, Jessica Furst Johnson and Jason Torchinsky - Political Lawyers Take a Deeper Dive into 2022 Elections and Look Ahead to 2024
New Legislation Related to Redistricting, Public Works, Advertising, Fire Safety and Planning and Zoning - In Part Two of the New Law Guidance series from Best Best & Krieger LLP (BBK), we cover important new legislation...more
Last Wednesday, the NYC Council convened their final Stated meeting of the year, where they passed and introduced multiple pieces of legislation. The Council passed several policing and criminal justice bills, including a ban...more
The Ohio General Assembly finished the first half of 2022 with a rush of lawmaking, appropriating billions of dollars in infrastructure spending, and making policy changes in a range of subjects. Initially, the legislature’s...more
Primaries were held in seven states across the nation on Tuesday, June 7, including here in Iowa. Primaries set the matchups for the fall general election....more
HIGHLIGHTS - Only one week remains in this year’s Legislative Session in Florida. A focal point of the penultimate week of session was on budget negotiations, with joint conference committees holding their first meetings...more
HIGHLIGHTS - The seventh week of Florida’s 2022 Legislative Session concluded today in Tallahassee, leaving only 15 business days remaining in the session. This week, House members spent a great deal of time both on the...more
Redistricting Day - At noon on Tuesday, the new boundary lines for Minnesota Legislative and Congressional districts were released. These boundaries are updated every ten years, following the census, to ensure districts...more
The sixth week of Florida’s 2022 Legislative Session concluded today in Tallahassee. There are now three weeks remaining in this year’s session, during which time legislators are set to tackle budget negotiations and debate...more
HIGHLIGHTS - The fourth week of Florida’s 2022 Regular Legislative Session concluded today. With five weeks remaining in this year’s session, the legislature is approaching the halfway point of their time in Tallahassee...more
HIGHLIGHTS - The 2022 Florida Legislative Session continued on Tuesday, after observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. In their second week, the legislature continued to move bills through committees, and the...more
Tuesday kicked off the 2022 Florida Legislative Session with opening remarks from House Speaker Chris Sprowls and Senate President Wilton Simpson, along with a State of the State address from Governor Ron DeSantis. A majority...more
Florida’s 2022 Legislative Session begins on Tuesday, January 11th and is scheduled to conclude by March 11th. As the Session draws closer, nearly 3,000 bills have been filed between the House and Senate, of which 1,600 are...more
This week at the General Assembly, legislators continued to negotiate the budget bill with the Governor and members worked on new congressional and legislative district maps. Budget Bill - Legislative leaders and Gov....more
This week at the General Assembly, negotiations with the Governor over the budget bill continued and members worked on new congressional and legislative district maps. Budget Bill - Legislative leaders and Gov....more
This week at the General Assembly, negotiations with the Governor over the budget bill continued and members held committee meetings on redistricting. Budget Bill - Legislative leaders and Gov. Cooper, along with...more
This week at the General Assembly, discussion of the budget bill with the Governor continued, members considered other bills and also started to discuss redistricting in committees. Budget Bill - Legislative leaders and...more
This week at the General Assembly, conferees worked on the budget bill, and members considered other bills in addition to holding redistricting hearings across the state. Budget Bill - Legislators from both...more
This week at the General Assembly, conferees worked on the budget bill and members held redistricting hearings across the state. Budget Bill - Legislators from both chambers continued work in a Budget Conference...more
This week at the General Assembly, conferees worked on the budget bill and legislators considered various other bills. Budget Bill Legislators from both chambers this week continued work in a Budget Conference...more
The 93rd Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 11, 2021 and entered into an extended recess on April 27, 2021. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for the legislature to reconvene for the following...more
Join Kilpatrick Townsend Government Relations Advisors Ches McDowell and Nelson Freeman for a North Carolina Legislative Update. Ches and Nelson will discuss some of the public bills passed by the General Assembly in the 2019...more
Part 1: California Laws Impacting Public Agencies for 2020 - How do the laws passed last year by California lawmakers impact how public agencies do business in the new year? In this annual Legal Alert series, Best Best &...more
Legislators left Raleigh this past Friday after passing bills drawing new congressional district lines and some additional appropriations bills. They plan to return on Jan. 14 for a session that may consider a variety of...more
The impasse between Governor Roy Cooper and the General Assembly over the 2019 budget bill (H966) continued this week, as Legislators considered some additional “mini-budget” bills. The House overrode Governor Cooper’s veto...more