Your Friday Finales are now News from Jones Street! From RGEA Director of Government Relations Jackson Cozort, you'll find our most recent legislative announcements plus previous, archived ones on the www.RGEA.info homepage under News from Jones Street. It was a very quiet week as both the House and the Senate took the entire week off after the House passed its version of the budget on May 22nd. When they come back on Monday, we expect a full week of committee meetings where the House will start taking up some of the Senate bills and vice versa. We also expect both chambers to announce the conference committee members as they start to negotiate a final budget. It is going to be interesting to see if the House Speaker appoints any democrats to the conference committee considering 28 democrats voted for the budget. We continue to hear that Senate leadership is very unhappy with the house budget so this could just be the beginning of a very long final budget process that could take months. #ncga #ncpol #advocacy #retirement #GovernmentEmployees (fb)

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