Southeast State Legislature Preview January 16-20, 2023
Southeast state legislature meetings, grouped by state, for the week of January 16-20, 2023. There are no meetings scheduled in Alabama and North Carolina (except House and Senate floor sessions). The theme this week across many state legislatures is budget: hearings and deliberations regarding the FY23 and FY24 budgets.
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Florida
It’s another interim committee week in Florida. Many committees and subcommittees in the House and Senate are meeting to organize and review their jurisdictional responsibilities. For brevity they are not listed below but links to the meeting schedules are posted.
House January 17, 2023 Meeting Schedule
House January 18, 2023 Meeting Schedule
House January 19, 2023 Meeting Schedule
Senate January 17, 2023 Meeting Schedule
Senate January 18, 2023 Meeting Schedule
Senate January 19, 2023 Meeting Schedule
Georgia
Georgia is holding several Joint Appropriations Committee hearings on the FY23 supplemental budget and FY24 budget. Four House Appropriations Subcommittees (Higher Education, Human Resources, General, and Economic Development) hold hearings as well.
Georgia House and Senate Meeting Scheduled January 17-19, 2023
Mississippi
Three Senate Appropriations Subcommittees hold hearings on Tuesday: Community Colleges, Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL Board, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Mississippi State University).
Joint Judiciary A Committee Meeting
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 8:30amCT
South Carolina
The General Assembly is in full swing next week in both chambers.
The House Ways and Means Subcommittees will hold thirteen hearings taking testimony from several state agencies and entities regarding their FY24 budget requests. A few full committees are meeting solely for the purposes of organizing, adopting committee rules, and electing first and second vice chairs. Other policy subcommittee will hold hearings on legislation as well, with the most important being the House Judiciary Criminal Laws Subcommittee. It holds a hearing on H.3503, a bill to fight back against fentanyl traffickers on Thursday, January 19 at 9amET.
The Senate Committees begin substantive work next week. The most important is a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that will consider four bills on Thursday, January 19 at 10amET regarding fentanyl and fentanyl traffickers. Both the House and Senate have made the fight against fentanyl a priority. A different Senate Judiciary Subcommittee will meet on Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 11amET to consider four bills, of which two concern the destruction of utility infrastructure. As has been reported by the media, in several states utility infrastructure has been targeted for vandalism and outright destruction.
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee (utility destruction bills)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 11amET
House Judiciary Criminal Laws Subcommittee (fentanyl bill)
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 9amET
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee (fentanyl bills)
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 10amET
House Ways and Means Budget Schedule 2023
House Ways and Means Budget Subcommittee Assignments 2023
Tennessee
Not a ton of activity next week in Tennessee, but what activity is scheduled is substantive. Two days of budget hearings begin in the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee. On Saturday, January 21, 2023 beginning at 11amCT is the inauguration of Governor Bill Lee, who won re-election by a wide margin in November 2022.
House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:30pmCT
House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
Friday, January 20, 2023 at 9amCT
Virginia
Virginia loves its committee process and next week is a textbook example: seventy-nine (79) subcommittees are scheduled to meet, not including three that were canceled. There are dozens of House and Senate Appropriations subcommittee meetings, the House Courts of Justice Committee has several hearings next week (similar to a Judiciary Committee in other chambers), and policy committees with jurisdiction over education, agriculture, and transportation all have scheduled hearings. Lastly, the Virginia General Assembly is working on Martin Luther King. Jr. Day even though it is an official state holiday.