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    Legislative Update - Colby

    Date: August 21, 2019, 11:30am – 1:00pm
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    Location:
    The City of Colby, 585 N Franklin Ave, Colby, KS 67701
    Price:
    $5
    Event Type:
    Meeting
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    Roundtable Topic

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    About the Presentation

    Natalie Bright, KS SHRM Lobbyist

    Natalie Bright 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, she left the Chamber to work as a contract lobbyist.  In 2008, she 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. She is licensed to practice law in state of Kansas

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    Lunch will NOT be served. You are welcome to bring food with you to the meeting.