February shortfall budget wake-up call

by Rep. Steven Johnson 

The past week in the legislature was moving at full speed in most of my committees. We did make some useful progress. In the pension committee, we finalized and passed a bill that relates to rules for working after retirement. The bill last year may create some challenges for employers. We also had a chance to define some of the costs to the system better. The bill proposed this year is based largely on the work the school superintendents did before session. There was bi-partisan support for the measure in committee and I would expect most of the bill to make it into law in some form.

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