CASE Is Back at the Bargaining Table. The CASE Bargaining Committee continues to attend bargaining sessions each week with the goal of negotiating a successor Memorandum of Understanding to the current 2022-2025 MOU that expires as of June 30, 2025. As CASE initiated bargaining in February, we are two months in and have passed various proposals and made numerous data requests. The Bargaining Team continues to work long hours preparing for and conducting bargaining sessions with the State. There are volumes of data to be analyzed, produced both inside and outside of Bargaining Sessions. The CASE Bargaining Team has engaged outside Economic & Financial experts to assist with the analysis in order to support our negotiation efforts.
CASE’s Sponsored Legislation. Last week, CASE’s sponsored legislation, SB 605, was placed on the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Suspense File. The Suspense File serves as a way to consider the fiscal impacts legislation will have on the state. A bill that includes costs of $50,000 or more to the state’s General Fund or costs of $150,000 or more to a special fund generally meet the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Prior to the deadlines for fiscal committees to hear and report bills to the Senate Floor, a vote-only Suspense Hearing will be held, where bills will either move on to the Senate Floor for further consideration or they will be held in committee, meaning that they will not progress further in the legislative process this year.
We will continue to keep you updated on the status of the bill as the legislative process progresses.