Action at the state level
In a surprise session on February 17th, the Joint Finance Committee met to discuss unemployment proposals to take advantage of some federal dollars from the Continuing Assistance Act and the Department’s effort to fund a new mainframe computer system.
The substitute amendment that was passed unanimously (?!) will:
start the process for a request for proposals (RFP) for the new computing system (but does not provide any actual funding),
extend the waiting week waiver to…