Executive Committee of the Legislative Council
The Executive Committee of the Legislative Council opened its 2026 work with a run of budget and calendar briefings, taking no votes but setting up key decisions on the Legislative Appropriations Bill, member and employee compensation, and the Blue Book — with a pointed exchange over whether lawmakers' own per diem is outrunning the raises they give Medicaid providers.
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“Medicaid providers. You know, all the people that we do their per diems just want to know if we're going higher than what we're giving them for ourselves.”
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Sign in to subscribeOf the legislative council will come to order. Ms. Kurtzphelin. Roll call, please. Senators and Representatives Caldwell. Here. Duran. Here. Rodriguez. Excused. Simpson. Mr. President, let's do this. Madam speaker, here. We do have a quorum, Members. Today we have a fairly robust agenda. We will be hearing first from director Castle on an overview of our work for 2026. Then a highlight of the leadership session calendar, updates on the legislative department budget and budget process. I should mention filling in today for director decheco will be deputy director Chase. Thank you for being here. We will also be talking about the long bill appropriation, recommendations to the joint budget committee, an update on the legislative department cash fund, and. And if there is time, other business, and welcome. Good morning, Majority leader Rodriguez. Director Castle, kick us off. Thank you so much, Madam Speaker. It's my pleasure to be here for our first leadership staff meeting this year. The very first thing on the agenda, an overview of the executive committee's work in 2026, is very short. It's just my requested time to just let you know that there are meetings coming up this year, and those are…
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