BW INSIGHTS

2025 Government Relations Legislative Update - Week Thirteen

By Matthew H. McKinney, R.G. Schwarm & Julie A. Smith | 04.14.2025

Capitol Update Breaking News. This morning, Governor Reynolds shared she will not seek reelection in 2026, citing a desire to spend more time with her family. Click here to watch her full announcement. This Week. The Senate debated Monday-Wednesday passing 30 bills. The House debated on Tuesday passing 8 bills. This is the time of year when a lot... Read More

2025 Government Relations Legislative Update - Week Eleven

By Matthew H. McKinney, R.G. Schwarm & Julie A. Smith | 03.31.2025

Capitol Update This Week. The days to the next funnel are dwindling. This week the Senate passed 30 bills on the floor and the House passed 49. Most of those bills will have to be pushed through the Committees on the other side by next Friday, April 4 or they will be ineligible for further consideration this session. New Representative Blaine... Read More

2025 Government Relations Legislative Update - Week Ten

By Matthew H. McKinney, R.G. Schwarm & Julie A. Smith | 03.24.2025

Capitol Update Both the House and Senate debated bills this week with the Senate passing 29 bills and the House passing 54 bills. During week 10, Joint Rule 20 found in House Concurrent Resolution 5, states that the Senate can only consider Senate bills, Senate joint resolutions, and unfinished business and the House can consider only House bills,... Read More

2025 Government Relations Legislative Update - Week Nine

By Matthew H. McKinney, R.G. Schwarm & Julie A. Smith | 03.17.2025

Capitol Update Most of this past week consisted of House and Senate floor debate as there is a push to advance bills from one chamber to the other in order to meet the next funnel deadline (April 4th), particularly bills that are not filed in both Chambers. The House passed 52 bills and the Senate passed 30 bills. This week, five of those bills... Read More

March 13, 2025 REC Summary

By Matthew H. McKinney, R.G. Schwarm & Julie A. Smith | 03.14.2025

The Revenue Estimating Conference (“REC”) met today (3.13.25) as part of their standard schedule of meetings to estimate future state revenues. REC members Kraig Paulsen (Gov.’s Appointee), Jennifer Acton (LSA), and Jeff Plagge (Public Member) serve on the three-member panel. A summary of the information discussed during the meeting is below,... Read More

Main Street Lending Program

By BrownWinick | 06.25.2020

Update: On Monday July 6 the Main Street Lending Program became fully operational. This program is meant to shore up small and mid-sized American businesses that were in good financial standing prior to the pandemic. However, the program might have difficulty garnering support from the nation’s largest financial institutions—lenders like JP Morgan... Read More