Statehouse Update

Statehouse Update May 5-7

Update 5/6/26: Adjustments have been made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The end of the 2025-26 regular legislative session is quickly approaching. Last week, the House passed a major bill reforming the Department of Transportation that the Senate assigned to conference committee. This week, the...

Brendan Connors

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May 04, 2026

  • Statehouse Update May 5-7

    Update 5/6/26: Adjustments have been made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The end of the 2025-26 regular legislative session is quickly approaching. Last week, the House passed a major bill reforming the Department of Transportation that the Senate assigned to conference committee. This week, the...
    Brendan Connors

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    May 04, 2026

  • Statehouse Update April 28-30

    Update 4/29/26: Adjustments have been made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The Senate passed an amended state budget last week, sending the bill back to the House for consideration. With the end of the 2025-26 regular session quickly approaching, both chambers are meeting in committees...
    Brendan Connors

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    April 27, 2026

  • Statehouse Update April 21-23

    Update 4/23/26: Adjustments have been made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The fates of many legislative priorities are revealing themselves during these last three weeks of the 2025-26 regular session. Budget debate hits the Senate floor this week while the House looks to consider...
    Brendan Connors

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    April 20, 2026

  • Statehouse Update April 14-16

    Update 4/16/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. Last week was a little slower at the statehouse with the House off and the Senate holding a few committee hearings. Lawmakers in both chambers are back in the swing of things with a...
    Brendan Connors

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    April 13, 2026

  • Statehouse Update March 31 - April 2

    Update 4/1/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The General Assembly passed a massive boat tax cut last week that will cut the effective property tax rate on boats from 10.5% to 6% by 2029. On Monday, Governor McMaster signed this bill...
    Brendan Connors

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    March 30, 2026

  • Statehouse Update March 24-26

    Update 3/26/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. The Senate is picking up where it left off last week with budget hearings and committee hearings on data center regulations, as well as an interesting AI bill. Meanwhile, the House is back after...
    Brendan Connors

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    March 24, 2026

  • Statehouse Update March 17-19

    Update 3/18/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred during the week. The House is off this week after passing a $15.4B budget last week following two days of intense debate, cutting around $400M from the governor’s proposed budget. The House proposal now heads to the...
    Brendan Connors

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    March 16, 2026

  • Statehouse Update March 10-12

    Update 3/12/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred during the week. Budget debate started in the House on Monday, with the process expected to last all week and possibly into next week. After finalizing a budget proposal, the House will debate tax cuts. Meanwhile, the...
    Brendan Connors

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    March 09, 2026

  • Statehouse Update March 3-5

    Update 3/5/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred throughout the week. Last week, the Senate passed the income tax bill (H.4216) with an amended tax rate, cutting the top rate by an additional 0.18%. Click here to learn more about the proposal in a recent...
    Brendan Connors

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    March 02, 2026

  • Statehouse Update February 24-26

    Update 2/24/26: Adjustments were made to this summary to reflect developments that occurred during the week. The Statehouse saw some exciting floor activity last week when the Senate passed S.768, an increase to the homestead property tax exemption. If passed by the House and signed into law, this bill would add...
    Brendan Connors

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    February 23, 2026