A strong case can be made that it’s not the two-year operating budget, but its companion trailer bill that becomes the most important piece of legislation lawmakers take up every other year at the ...

After a long, suspense-filled and sometimes emotional day of debate, the New Hampshire House adopted a two-year, $16.3 billion state budget that made significant cuts to higher education, human ...

In a year when reassessments had a dramatic effect on tax bills and inflationary prices have many people struggling, the last ...

Few people inside or outside the Capitol were paying much attention last year when Assembly Bill 205 popped up on the California Senate floor on June 29. The measure had been sitting in the Senate for ...

But budget bills have lower hurdles than other legislation – the most significant being they take effect immediately with a simple majority vote, while other bills require two-thirds. As part of the ...

California lawmakers passed a 19-bill, 2,100-page budget package late last month and, maybe unknowingly, approved some pet priorities of Gov. Gavin Newsom. The second-term governor has a history of ...