January 22, 2010 LEGISLATIVE DATABASE
MSBA Legislative Update
BUSY TIME AT THE STATE HOUSE!
The week of January 18 was a very busy week at the State House even with the Monday holiday. Committees are working long hours to hold public hearings and work sessions on many bills each day, as well as review the Governor’s Supplemental Budget request (LD 1671) in order to report recommendations back to the Appropriations Committee. Starting on Tuesday, January 26 the Appropriations Committee will start to hold work sessions to receive Committee recommendations relating to the budget. On the 26th, it hopes to hear from the Natural Resources Committee, the Inland Fisheries & Wildlife and Marine Resources Committees, and will hold work sessions throughout the week to receive and discuss recommendations from Committees. The work sessions will continue into the week of February 1, concluding on February 2 with the work session on recommendations from the Health & Human Services Committee.
The week of January 25 will also be extremely busy, and we urge you to review the attached Legislative Database to see the various hearing and work session schedules on bills of interest to you.
UPCOMING ISSUES
LD 1608 (office of administrative law judges for licensing boards) – Work Session is January 26, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 208 of the Cross Office Building.
LD 1610 (silver alert program) – Work Session is January 25, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 436 of the State House.
LD 1622 (laws governing the practice of law) – Work Session is January 28, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 438 of the State House.
LD 1623 (permanency plan for children in foster care) – Work Session is January 28, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 438 of the State House.
LD 1703 (Juvenile Justice Task Force) – Public Hearing is January 25, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 436 of the State House.
LD 1714 (information maintained by registries of deeds) – Public Hearing is February 4, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 438 of the State House.
LD 1738 (duty to report serious injury) – Public Hearing is February 4, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 438 of the State House.
Attached please find a copy of your Legislative Database. We recommend you read the database carefully, because a number of legislative proposals have been introduced, with public hearings and work sessions already scheduled.
Click here to open the database.
REGULATORY DATABASE
Attached please find an updated Regulatory Database highlighting any changes in new proposed or newly adopted rules of interest to MSBA.
Click here to open the Regulatory Database.
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions:
Pattie Aho at 207-622-6311 or paho@pierceatwood.com