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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Legislature ends session, is a special session next?


The Legislative session has ended and while the finger-pointing has already started, the Governor promised to follow up with his earlier call for a special session -- to deal with the state employee retirement crisis. While a special session appears to lack legislative support, with both sides articulating persuasive reasons to have or not to have one, two things are CLEAR: One is that the retirement crisis needs solving; and, two is that without a prior agreement by both Legislative Houses, a special session is pretty much become a WASTE of tax money (the session is expected to cost $60,000 a day)! Judging by where both Houses ended the session yesterday, and considering that the Speaker, Jeff Hoover and Dan Mongiardo have gubernatorial elections to run (May 22nd), one can expect that the House ISN'T going to act now (or they would have already acted) but that the House (at least its Leadership) will defer the issue until a study is completed -- preferably AFTER the November elections and probably not until the next legislative session begins on January 8th. Cannot the issue wait for a study? Your thoughts, if you care to share them.

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3 Comments:

Blogger KYJurisDoctor said...

Winners and losers of the legislative session.

10:16 AM  
Blogger KYJurisDoctor said...

Testosterone patches needed for the Legislature?

10:17 AM  
Blogger KYJurisDoctor said...

Backbone transplants?

10:31 AM  

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