Event Details
2016 Legislative Update and 2017 Forecast
| Date: | November 8, 2016, 11:30am – 1:00pm |
| Location: | Maceli's 1031 New Hampshire St. Lawrence, Kansas **Parking is available across the street and in the parking garage one block north. |
| Event Type: | Meeting |
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Start Times:
11:15 am Registration Begins
11:15 am Buffet Lunch Available
11:45 am Opening Business, Chapter Announcements
12:00 pm Presentation
1:00 pm Meeting Adjourned
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Pricing:
- Member - In Advance - $20
- Member - Late Registration (after 11/4/16) - $25
- Guest - $30
Presentation: 2016 Legislative Update and 2017 Forecast
Presented by: Natalie Bright, Bright & Carpenter Consulting, Inc.
Join us on Election Day for a timely presentation by Natalie Bright. Natalie will present an overview of the 2016 Kansas Legislative session with a focus on issues impacting the HR community, a look at the 2017 election and a preview of what to expect in the 2017 session.
About Natalie Bright:
Natalie has more than twenty years of experience lobbying on behalf of Kansas business and associations at the state and federal levels. Her expertise is in lobbying business issues, specifically in the areas of taxation, human resources, insurance, judicial reform and transportation.
Natalie has a joint degree in business administration and political science from the University of California-Riverside. She received her law degree from Washburn School of Law in 1998 and began lobbying for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Industry during the 1998 Legislative Session. In 1999, Bright left the Chamber to work as a contract lobbyist. In 2008, Bright joined her law school classmate, Marlee Carpenter, and opened her current firm.
Natalie is active in a variety of statewide business coalitions and has been part of several reform efforts including recent workers’ compensation, immigration, unemployment compensation and health care reform efforts. During her career, she has worked on several key pieces of legislation including the 2012 Workers Compensation Reforms, which passed unanimously and the most recent Kansas Unemployment Insurance Compensation Reforms. Bright is licensed to practice law in state of Kansas and resides in Shawnee, Kan. with her husband Kevin and four children.
