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We’re onto the final countdown for this year’s legislative session. Only about two weeks remain before we are constitutionally required to adjourn sine die, which means we’ll end our legislative business with no set date to resume for the year.

To finish off the remaining two weeks, we’ll begin voting on appropriations bills that create the 2023 Fiscal Year budget as well as approve amendments to Senate bills that were modified in the House of Representatives. Sometimes, we don’t agree with the changes that were made in the opposite chamber, so those measures go to conference committee. This a...