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Last week, the third overhaul of the state’s education funding formula was unveiled before the Senate Finance Committee, which decided to include it in the Senate’s proposed state budget for the next two years.
The Senate Finance Committee Friday approved a new education funding formula that would provide $2.08 billion in state aid for education.
The Senate Finance Committee decided Thursday the Education Trust Fund and what it supports should remain as it is in statute.
CONCORD — The Senate Finance Committee hopes to finish 99 percent of its work by the end of the week but has many outstanding issues to navigate before a final vote.
A House Finance Committee’s subdivision wants to hold a bill reauthorizing the state’s Medicaid expansion program for a year.
The federal government is broken when 20 or so far right extremists who represent an extremely small portion of the country’s residents, can hold the nation, the economy and the global economy hostage over what was once routine legislation.
The state’s Medicaid expansion program cleared its first hurdle in the House unscathed after three hours of debate Thursday.
The motion to indefinitely postpone, which prevents a similar or identical bill from coming up again before the current term ends in December 2024, was approved on a 196-190 vote.
Over the last decade, Medicaid expansion, or the Granite Advantage Health Care program has been one of the most impactful and successful the Legislature has enacted.