This legislation is the state's supplemental budget for July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. Click here to see full summary.

This legislation is the state's budget for July 1, 2016 until June 30, 2017. Click here to view full summary.

This legislation would require the necessary state appropriation to expand medicaid and requires that it be 138% of the federal poverty level.

This legislation requires law enforcement officers that respond to emerency calls or perform traffic stops to wear audio and video recording devices while they are on duty. Only the portions of recordings involving an encounter (i.e., a stop, detention or investigation of another person) are public records subject to disclosure.  Recordings must be maintained for 90 days except that recordings involving an arrest, detention, use of force or for which a complaint has been lodged must be maintained for three years.

Counties that fail to implement the recording devices by January 1, 2017, are subject to losing state funding and state administrated federal funding. The legislation provides for grant funding to help small and underfunded law enforcement agencies to comply with this law.

 This joint resolution of the General Assembly makes several provisions regarding transportation funding including:

1) the 4th penny of state sales and use tax will be dedicated to transportation;

2) bond money will include annually $300 million for transportation funding:

3) 25 percent of increased revenues will be dedicated to transportation;

4) DOT is required to rank and prioritize all pending projects according to safety, critical infrastructure repair, and traffic relief.

The ultimate effect of this resolution depends on how it is passed.  If it is simply read once and adopted in each chamber, it will merely express the desire of the General Assembly. If it is read three times and adopted with the formalities of a general bill, it will have the force and effect of law. In that event, items 1, 2, and 3 above will still be aspirational only as the General Assembly can only bind itself by constitutional amendment. Item 4 will have the effect of a general law however and be binding on DOT.