Title Month Year Body
Hudak’s Senate Notes – February 2010 begins February 2010
IT’S FEBRUARY ALREADY!
Time certainly has been flying by at the Legislature this year! We’ve already had several bills signed into law after only two and a half weeks. A few Senate committee hearings have lasted until after 8 p.m., but that’s nothing compared with the House burning the midnight oil twice last week to get budget-...
Hudak’s Senate Notes – January 2010 – 2nd half January 2010

 

THE LEGISLATURE RACES TO WORK

 

 

 The State Senate got right to work on the very first day of the session, January 13, with a meeting of the Senate Education Committee and 2nd Reading by the Senate – all to pass ...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – January 2010 January 2010
HOPEFUL NEW YEAR
 
Happy New Year! I am looking forward to the beginning of the 2010 session on January 13. With the impending cuts to the current year’s budget that we will need to approve (a total of $600 million) and the revenue for Fiscal Year 2011 projected to be $1.5 billion lower than the...
Hudak’s Senate Notes – November 2009 Reminder November 2009

REMINDER FOR NOVEMBER COFFEE

 

Don’t forget to join me on November 5, 7:30 - 8:30 a.m., at Panera’s, 7739 Wadsworth Blvd., for coffee (or tea or breakfast). I don’t have agendas for these Legislative Coffees and I don’t put on programs – so take...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – November 2009 November 2009

 THANKS, AND NO THANKS

 

I think November is one of the best months of the year. On November 11 we remember our veterans; I really appreciate the risks they took and sacrifices they made for our country. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday – not just for the great food, but also to have the time to think about what I’m...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – October 2009 October 2009

SET BACK THE CLOCKS, BUT NOT OUR STATE!

 

Daylight Savings is on Halloween night this fall – scary! But what is even scarier is the state’s economic situation, which forced the Governor recently to cut another $350 million from the state budget, and which...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – September 2009 September 2009

GEARING UP FOR THE NEXT SESSION

 

All the interim committees of the Legislature are currently focused on proposals for legislation for the 2010 session, since our deadline to get them in for bill drafting is mid-October. This deadline is early so the legislative staff...

Hudak’s Senate Notes –August 2009 August 2009

BUSY, BUSY!

  The level of activity of the interim committees is intense now, and I...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – July 2009 July 2009

THINGS ARE HEATING UP!

 

  The goings-on at the Capitol are heating up, as the interim committees get into action. These committees will be working steadily for the next few months, because decisions need to be made by October about what legislation to put forward for the 2010 legislative...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – June 2009 June 2009

The 2009 session of the State Legislature (General Assembly) ended on May 6, and it won’t reconvene until January.  Nevertheless, I’m discovering that the interim is rather busy. 

TOWN HALL MEETINGS

I will be hosting...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – End of Session, May 2009 May 2009

 

IT’S OVER!

 

The 2009 session of the State Legislature (General Assembly) – my very first! – is over. The pace was frantic during the final three weeks, and now we’re waiting to see which bills...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – 1st half of April 2009 April 2009

APRIL SHOWERS  

During the first half of April, we were drenched by a downpour of bills.  There have been more bills during the 2009 session than ever before, evident from the new folders our filing clerks had to create to store all the extra bills.  Many of these bills...

Hudak's Senate Notes - 2nd half of March 2009 March 2009

TIME MARCHES ON

It's hard to believe that March has ended already!   The pace at the Capitol was almost frantic during the last few weeks.  Our committees met until late in the evening so often, in order to get through all the bills, that it was a rare pleasure for me to get home for dinner, and one day when I was seen leaving at 5:30 p.m., a...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – 1st half of March 2009 March 2009

MARCH MADNESS!

 

March began with what was basically a filibuster that kept the State Senate in session on Monday, March 2, until 2:30 a.m. for the 2nd...

Hudak's Senate Notes - 2nd half of February 2009 February 2009

END OF FEBRUARY

February never stopped being busy.  People who have worked in the Capitol in previous years say that this was one of the busiest they can remember.  Most likely it is because we had to pass bills to deal with the huge shortfall in revenue in order to balance the current year's budget, while meeting the regular deadline to pass all Senate bills...

Hudak’s Senate Notes – 1st half of February 2009 February 2009

TIME FLIES IN FEBRUARY!

 

The first two weeks of February were very busy at the Capitol. All Senate bills were required to be heard in the Senate committee(s) they were assigned to (except Appropriations) by Thursday, February 12 (unless they were granted...

Hudak's Senate Notes January 2009

OFF TO A HECTIC START!


My first few weeks as your State Senator were very hectic, as I think will be the case throughout this session.  Here are the key pieces of information I think you want to know.

COMMITTEES:

  • I have been assigned to...