The Year That Never Ended If the 2016 Legislative Session felt strangely familiar, it wasn’t your imagination. The two biggest issues of the year ─ the reauthorization of Medicaid expansion...
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It’s all About Compromise, and you Can’t Change my Mind on That About 70 bills were up for negotiation in the final week of the 2016 session, and for those...
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Finishing Touches on Opioid Efforts The House and Senate this week were at work on the last remaining legislation from the long list of bills that had been proposed as...
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Surge in the War on Drugs The House on Wednesday passed several bills containing a total of about $9 million in spending aimed at reducing the number of opioid overdose...
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The Pen is Mightier Than the Saw Governor Hassan vetoed her first bill of the session this week, striking down a building code measure that she said was a public...
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No Snow, so Let’s Pray for Summer Momentum toward an early June finish to the 2016 Legislative session was building this week as several House committees finished work on all...
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What Else we got? With the two year Medicaid expansion extension signed by the governor earlier this month, the legislature this week turned its attention to other issues, chief among...
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It Ain’t Over ‘til it’s Over…and it’s Almost Over The Senate on Thursday passed a bill extending the Medicaid expansion program until 2018. The measure passed by a 16-8 vote,...
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