2023-2024

It's a special edition of the Friday Report! The House and Senate met this week to discuss the budget and other bills, including:

• Income tax deductions for firefighters
• Tax credits for businesses
• Property tax exemptions for low-income housing properties

Find a detailed breakdown of the approved state budget and info on other bills important to counties in the final Friday Report of 2024.

In the final week of the General Assembly’s session, both chambers scrambled to clear their calendars to get desired bills across the finish line.

With the General Assembly set to adjourn sine die next Thursday, both chambers held what will likely be the last set of subcommittee and committee meetings of the 2024 session. The Senate also debated a bill to prohibit gender transition procedures for minors (H.

The Senate debated and gave second and third readings to the FY 24-25 Appropriations Act (H.

The Senate spent most of the week in chamber working its way through the calendar in preparation of the full Senate debate on the budget bill (H.

The Senate spent most of this week on the floor working through its calendar in preparation for the Thursday, April 11 crossover deadline. This deadline requires any bill that has not crossed over to the other chamber to receive a two-thirds vote to be considered. The House was on furlough this week and the Senate will be in perfunctory session next week.

Both chambers worked through their respective calendars in advance of the April 11 crossover deadline. Bills that have not crossed over from their originating chamber will require a two-thirds vote after the deadline to be considered by the other chamber. In advance of furlough next week, the House passed one of its priority pieces of legislation — a comprehensive 10-year energy bill (H. 5118) — and sent it to the Senate.

It was a productive week at the State House.

The House debated and passed H. 5164 to revise the Education Scholarship Trust Fund Program enacted in 2023.

The Senate finished debate and gave third reading to the Judicial Merit Selection Reform bill, S. 1046.

The House this week passed the 2024-25 state budget including an increase to the Local Government Fund. A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee took up S. 763, a bill that would alleviate the financial burdens placed on counties in the disposal of waste tires. The subcommittee carried the bill over due to last minute concerns from manufacturers. 

Please contact members of the Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee to express your support of passing the bill.