The State Legislature will convene on Friday January 5th to address the $220 million budget gap as well as to resolve the Issues related to the Medicare Savings Program.  Despite the fact that State Employees provided over $1.5 billion in budget savings via the 2017 SEBAC agreement  (which will translate into $24 billion over the next 20 years), several Republicans in the legislature continue their public messaging campaign against state employees and stating that budget problems should be fixed by curbing state employee costs.  During the upcoming legislative session, It is expected that (yet again) Republican leadership will do a lot of complaining about the 2017 SEBAC agreement and will talk at length about State employees compensation,pension & healthcare.

 SEBAC has no intention to renegotiate the 2017 SEBAC agreement.