UNI Legislative Update

The Office of Governmental Relations provides legislative updates to the campus community through online communication and bimonthly campus presentations. These updates will inform faculty, staff and students of hot topics facing the legislature and legislative actions affecting UNI and the Regents institutions.

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March 10, 2008

Budget update

Good Monday morning. Last week was "funnel week" in the legislature which means that all bills, with the exception of tax or spending bills, must be voted out of committee in order to survive. It's basically a way for the General Assembly to narrow down the list of the literally thousands of bills that have been filed since the beginning of session in January. As a result, my blogging was a bit light with all the subcommittee and committee meetings.

My original thinking was that the Education-Appropriations subcommittee would have released their targets by now, but that is not the case. I'll keep you posted on further developments, but a solid budget number may not be released until late this week or next.