Budgets, budgets, budgets…this is the focus of the upcoming week.

On Monday the House will release a proposed 2011-13 biennial budget around noon. This will be followed by a public hearing at 3:30 pm before the House Ways & Means Committee.

As predicted the House capital budget will follow with a public hearing on Tuesday at 8:00 am before the House Capital Budget Committee.  The Senate will likely release their budget either late next week or early the following week.

In addition to action on the budgets, legislators will have a long week on the floor of each chamber. 

On Friday (April 1), the Legislature passed another major deadline requiring all fiscal related bills to move from an appropriation committee to the floor.

With that in mind, this week’s schedule includes limited committee meetings – primarily focused on the budgets or interim planning – with most of the time spent on the House and Senate floor as another major deadline looms.

Both the House and the Senate have until April 12 to consider bills from the opposite chamber.