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2017 State Legislative resources International association Of Machinists & Aerospace Workers INDEX Governors................................................................................................................. 1-2 Secretaries of State/Lieutenant Governors ............................................................. 3-6 Mayors ................................................................................................................... 7-15 State Session Schedules ....................................................................................... 16-19 State Legislature Control ..................................................................................... 20-22 Bill Crossover Deadlines ....................................................................................... 23-25 State Signing Deadlines ....................................................................................... 26-31 State Budget Timetables ...................................................................................... 32-37 The Ordinance Process .............................................................................................. 38 Definitions of Terms Used .................................................................................... 39-44 State Constitutional Convention ...................................................................... 39 State Governors Executive Orders ................................................................... 39 Types of Ballot Measure and Ballot Basics ....................................................... 39 Ballot Basics ............................................................................................... 40-44 Amending State Constitutions................................................................ 41 Citizen Initiatives ......................................................................... 41 Indirect Initiated Constitutional Amendment ............................... 41 Legislatively Referred Constitutional Amendment ....................... 41 Convention Referred Constitutional Amendment ......................... 41 State Statutes on the Ballot ................................................................... 42 Initiated State Statute .................................................................. 42 Indirect Initiative Statute ............................................................. 42 Legislative Referrals (or Legislatively Referred Ballot Measures) 42 Bond Issues ............................................................................................ 42 Advisory Question .................................................................................. 42 Automatic Ballot Referral ....................................................................... 43 Combined Initiated Constitutional Amendment and State Statute ........ 43 Commission-Referred Ballot Measures .................................................. 43 Veto Referendum (or Citizen Referendum) ............................................ 43 Recall ..................................................................................................... 44 Governors Knowing the political party of the governor in each state gives you an idea of the balance of power between the executive and legislature. Term expiration information indicates when the balance of power may change. It also helps you to predict how the executive’s power to sign or veto might influence a bill’s process through the legislature. State Governor Terms Expires Term Limited Alabama Kay Ivey (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Alaska Bill Walker (I) Dec, 2018 No Arizona Doug Ducey (R) Jan, 2019 No Arkansas Asa Hutchinson (R) Jan, 2019 No California Jerry Brown (D) Jan, 2019 Yes Colorado John Hickenlooper (D) Jan, 2019 Yes Connecticut Dannel Malloy (D) Jan, 2019 No Delaware John Carney (D) Jan, 2021 No District of Columbia Muriel Bowser (D) 2018 No Florida Rick Scott (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Georgia Nathan Deal (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Guam Eddie Calvo (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Hawaii David Ige (D) Dec, 2018 No Idaho C.L. “Butch” Otter (R) Jan, 2019 No Illinois Bruce Rauner (R) Jan, 2019 No Indiana Eric Holcomb (R) Jan, 2021 No Iowa Terry Branstad (R) Jan, 2019 No Kansas Sam Brownback (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Kentucky Matt Bevin (R) Dec, 2019 No Louisiana John Bel Edwards (D) Jan, 2020 Yes Maine Paul LePage (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Maryland Larry Hogan (R) Jan, 2019 No Massachusetts Charlie Baker (R) Jan, 2019 No Michigan Rick Snyder (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Minnesota Mark Dayton (D) Jan, 2019 Yes 1 Governors State Governor Terms Expires Term Limited Mississippi Phil Bryant (R) Jan, 2020 No Missouri Eric Greitens (R) Jan, 2021 No Montana Steve Bullock (D) Jan, 2021 No Nebraska Pete Ricketts (R) Jan, 2019 No Nevada Brian Sandoval (R) Jan, 2019 Yes New Hampshire Chris Sununu (R) Jan, 2019 No New Jersey Chris Christie (R) Jan, 2018 Yes New Mexico Susana Martinez (R) Jan, 2019 Yes New York Andrew Cuomo (D) Jan, 2019 Yes North Carolina Roy Cooper (D) Jan, 2021 No North Dakota Doug Burgum (R) Dec, 2020 No Ohio John Kasich (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Oklahoma Mary Fallin (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Oregon Kate Brown (D) Jan, 2019 No Pennsylvania Tom Wolf (D) Jan, 2019 No Puerto Rico Ricardo Rossello Nevares Jan, 2021 Yes Rhode Island Gina Raimondo (D) Jan, 2019 No South Carolina Henry McMaster (R) Jan, 2019 No South Dakota Dennis Daugaard Jan, 2019 Yes Tennessee Bill Haslam (R) Jan, 2019 Yes Texas Greg Abbott (R) Jan, 2019 No U.S. Virgin Islands Kenneth Mapp (I) Jan, 2019 No Utah Gary Herbert (R) Jan, 2021 No Vermont Phil Scott (R) Jan, 2019 No Virginia Terry McAuliffe (D) Jan, 2018 Yes Washington Jay Inslee (D) Jan, 2021 No West Virginia Jim Justice (D) Jan, 2021 No Wisconsin Scott Walker (R) Jan, 2019 No Wyoming Matt Mead (R) Jan, 2019 Yes 2 Secretaries of State/Lieutenant Governors 3 Secretaries of State/Lieutenant Governors 4 Secretaries of State/Lieutenant Governors 5 Secretaries of State/Lieutenant Governors 6 Mayors A Mayor is the leader of a municipal government. Mayors have varying levels of influence over the legislation put forth by the municipal council, but in most larger cities they act as the head of the municipality’s executive branch. Below provides a list of the mayors from municipalities with popu- lations over 500,000. Knowing the political party and term expiration of the mayor can help you decipher the balance of political power in these cities. Locality Mayor Term Expires New York, NY Bill Blasio (D) 2018 Chicago, IL Rahm Emanuel (D) 2019 Dallas, TX Mike Rawlings (D) 2019 St. Louis, MO Francis Slay (D) 2017 Denver, CO Michael Hancock (D) 2017 Atlanta, GA Kasim Reed (D) 2018 Miami, FL Tomas Regalado (R) 2018 Seattle, WA Ed Murray (D) 2018 Omaha, NE Jean Stothert (R) 2017 Cleveland, OH Frank Jackson (D) 2018 Salt Lake City, UT Jackie Biskupski (D) 2020 Houston, TX Sylvester Turner (D) 2020 Philadelphia Jim Kenney (D) 2020 Phoenix, AZ Greg Stanton (D) 2020 San Antonio, TX Ivy Taylor (I) 2017 San Jose, CA Sam Liccardo (D) 2017 San Diego, CA Kevin Faulconer (R) 2017 Austin, TX Steve Adler (D) 2018 Jacksonville, FL Lenny Curry (D) 2019 Indianapolis, IN Joseph Hogsett (D) 2020 San Francisco, CA Ed Lee (D) 2019 Columbus, OH Andrew Ginther (D) 2020 Fort Worth, TX Betsy Price (R) 2019 Charlotte, NC Jennifer Roberts (R) 2019 7 Mayors Locality Mayor Term Expires Detroit, MI Mike Duggan (D) 2018 El Paso, TX Oscar Leeser, (I) 2017 Memphis, TN Jim Strickland (D) 2020 Baltimore, MD Catherine E. Pugh (D) 2020 Boston, MA Marty Walsh (D) 2018 Nashville, TN Megan Barry (D) 2019 Louisville, KY Greg Fischer (D) 2019 Milwaukee, WI Tom Barrett (D) 2020 Portland, OR Ted Wheeler (D) 2021 Las Vegas, NV Carolyn Goodman (I) 2019 Oklahoma City, OK Mick Cornet (R) 2018 Albuquerque, NM Richard Berry (R) 2018 Tucson, AZ Jonathan Rothschild (D) 2019 Fresno, CA Lee Brand (R) 2021 Sacramento, CA Darrell Steinberg, (D) 2020 Long Beach, CA Robert Garcia (D) 2018 Kansas City, MO Sly James, (I) 2019 Mesa, AZ John Giles (R) 2018 Virginia Beach, VA Will Sessoms (R) 2017 Colorado Springs, CO John Suthers (R) 2019 Raleigh, NC Nancy McFarlane (I) 2017 Tulsa, OK G.T. Bynum (R) 2020 Oakland, CA Libby Schaaf, (D) 2019 Minneapolis, MN Betsy Hodges (D) 2018 Wichita, KS Jeff Longwell (R) 2019 Arlington, KS Jeff Williams 2017 8 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities Ms. Catherine Pugh 9 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 10 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 11 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 12 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 13 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 14 Mayors of the Largest U.S. Cities 15 State Session Schedules 16 State Session Schedules 17 State Session Schedules 18 State Session Schedules 19 State Legislature Control 20 State Legislature Control 21 State Legislature Control 22 Bill Crossover Deadlines 23 Bill Crossover Deadlines 24 Bill Crossover Deadlines 25 Signing Deadlines 26 Signing Deadlines 27 Signing Deadlines 28 Signing Deadlines 29 Signing Deadlines 30 Signing Deadlines 31 Budget Timetables 32 Budget Timetables 33 Budget Timetables 34 Budget Timetables 35 Budget Timetables 36 Budget Timetables 37 The Ordinance Process An ordinance is the name typically used for a law passed by a local political subdivision, such as a city, county, village, or town. Ordinances may address a wide variety of local issues, from lo- cal government structure to speed limits and sign sizes. The process for passing an ordinance is determined by the laws of each individual state, though there are many similarities between states. The diagram below portrays how the ordinance process generally works. 38 Definitions