The California Legislature passed a record $325 billion preliminary budget, with final details remaining to be hammered out before the start of the new fiscal year ...

House Speaker Destin Hall, left, and Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger, talk before Gov. Josh Stein delivered his ...

The GOP-led Legislature approved a $115.1 billion budget for the next fiscal year, plus a $1.3 billion tax cut package, ...

The University System of Maryland’s Board of Regents voted Friday to approve a fiscal 2026 budget that is 7% smaller than ...

Child care matters in Texas because without it, parents cannot work and contribute to the state’s booming economy, alongside ...

After months of negotiation, The Department of State (DST), along with the State Health Plan (Plan), has reached an untenable ...

More Republican-led states are giving paid parental leave to public school teachers and other state employees.

The last rate increase was in 1979. State employees who park in the state ... decks and surface lots around the Capitol, Legislative Building, NC Freedom Park, N.C. Museum of History, Executive ...

North Carolina state government employees will likely have to pay ... even after “a record appropriation expectation from the General Assembly” to help shore it up, Briner told the State ...

A file image of the North Carolina legislative ... rising costs as the State Health Plan board. The state legislature has been spending more and more money on state employee benefits over the ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Governor Sanders recently sent out a letter to Arkansas State ... with the legislature to make a one-time, 3% increase to all Arkansas executive branch state employee ...

North Carolina lawmakers don’t seem ... raise under the new salary schedule will receive the 3% legislative increase for other state employees. State Highway Patrol officers are also under ...