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Click here for our 2026 State Legislative Session Dates chart.
This resource collects important projected dates for the upcoming state legislative sessions. This page will be updated as additional information on session dates is released. Click the button to download the PDF quick-reference version.
| State | Session Dates | Intro Deadlines | Crossover Deadline | Carryover | Other Notes and Deadlines (Special Session, etc.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Adjournment | House | Senate | '24 to '25 | '25 to '26 | |||
| Alabama | 2/4/25 | 5/14/25 | No | No | ||||
| Alaska | 1/21/25 | 5/20/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Arizona | 1/13/25 | 6/27/25 | 2/11/25 | 2/3/25 | No | No | ||
| Arkansas | 1/13/25 | 5/5/25 | 3/3/25 | 3/3/25 | No | No | ||
| California | 12/2/24 | 9/13/25 | 2/21/25 | 2/21/25 | 6/6/25 | No | Yes | |
| Colorado | 1/8/25 | 5/7/25 | 2/7/25 | 1/31/25 | 3/14/25 | No | No | Special session, re: budget, 8/21/25 - 8/26/25 |
| Connecticut | 1/8/25 | 6/4/25 | No | No | Special session, re: budget, 11/12/25 - 11/13/25 | |||
| Delaware | 1/14/25 | 6/30/25 | No | Yes | Special session, re: property taxes, 11/6/25; special session re: budget, 11/13/25 -11/19/25 | |||
| Florida | 3/4/25 | 6/16/25 | 2/28/25 | 3/4/25 | No | No | ||
| Georgia | 1/13/25 | 4/4/25 | 3/6/25 | No | Yes | |||
| Hawaii | 1/15/25 | 5/2/25 | 1/23/25 | 1/23/25 | 3/6/25 | No | Yes | |
| Idaho | 1/6/25 | 4/4/25 | 2/10/25 | 1/17/25 | 3/3/25 | No | No | |
| Illinois | 1/8/25 | 5/31/25 | 2/7/25 | 2/7/25 | 4/11/25 | No | Yes | Veto session 10/14/25 -10/30/25 |
| Indiana | 1/8/25 | 4/24/25 | 1/14/25 | 1/16/25 | 2/20/25 | No | No | Special session, re: redistricting, 12/1/25 -12/8/25 |
| Iowa | 1/13/25 | 5/14/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Kansas | 1/13/25 | 4/11/25 | 2/20/25 | No | Yes | |||
| Kentucky | 1/7/25 | 3/28/25 | 2/19/25 | 2/18/25 | No | No | ||
| Louisiana | 4/14/25 | 6/12/25 | 4/23/25 | 4/23/25 | 6/9/25 | No | No | Special session, re: elections, 10/23/25 - 10/29/25 |
| Maine | 12/4/24 | 3/21/25 | No | Yes | Special session 3/25/25 - 6/25/25 | |||
| Maryland | 1/8/25 | 4/7/25 | 2/7/25 | 2/3/25 | 3/17/25 | No | No | |
| Massachusetts | 1/1/25 | 11/19/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Michigan | 1/8/25 | 12/31/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Minnesota | 1/14/25 | 5/19/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Mississippi | 1/7/25 | 4/3/25 | 1/20/25 | 1/20/25 | 2/14/25 | No | No | |
| Missouri | 1/8/25 | 5/15/25 | 3/8/25 | 3/1/25 | No | No | Special session, re: redistricting, 9/3/25 - 9/12/25; veto session 9/10/25 | |
| Montana | 1/6/25 | 4/30/25 | 2/26/25 | 2/26/25 | 3/7/25 | No | No | |
| Nebraska | 1/8/25 | 6/2/25 | 1/22/25 | No | Yes | |||
| Nevada | 2/3/25 | 6/2/25 | 3/17/25 | 3/17/25 | 4/22/25 | No | No | Special session, re: econ. development, crime, healthcare, various, 11/13/25 - 11/19/25 |
| New Hampshire | 1/8/25 | 6/26/25 | 1/24/25 | 4/10/25 | No | Yes | ||
| New Jersey | 1/14/25 | 1/12/26 | Yes | No | Recess 7/1/25 - 11/5/25; reconvened in lame duck 11/6/25 | |||
| New Mexico | 1/21/25 | 3/22/25 | 2/20/25 | 2/20/25 | No | No | Special session, re: budget, offset federal cuts, 10/1/25 - 10/2/25 | |
| New York | 1/8/25 | 6/17/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| North Carolina | 1/8/25 | 12/31/25 | 4/3/25 | 3/25/25 | 5/8/25 | No | Yes | Special session re: Medicaid, 11/17//25; regular session in recess, reconvening monthly after 7/1/25 |
| North Dakota | 1/7/25 | 5/3/25 | 1/20/25 | 1/27/25 | 2/25/25 | No | No | |
| Ohio | 1/6/25 | 12/31/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Oklahoma | 2/3/25 | 5/30/25 | 1/16/25 | 1/16/25 | 3/27/25 | No | Yes | |
| Oregon | 1/21/25 | 6/27/25 | 2/25/25 | 2/25/25 | No | No | Special session, re: transportation funding, 8/29/25 - 10/1/25 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1/7/25 | 12/31/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Rhode Island | 1/7/25 | 6/20/25 | 2/27/25 | 2/25/25 | No | No | ||
| South Carolina | 1/14/25 | 5/28/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| South Dakota | 1/14/25 | 3/31/25 | 2/6/25 | 2/6/25 | 2/25/25 | No | No | Special session, re: prisons, 9/23/25 |
| Tennessee | 1/14/25 | 4/22/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Texas | 1/14/25 | 6/2/25 | 3/14/25 | 3/14/25 | No | No | Special session I, 7/21/25 - 8/15/25; Special session II, 8/15/25 - 9/3/25, re: redistricting, floods | |
| Utah | 1/21/25 | 3/7/25 | 1/31/25 | 1/31/25 | 3/4/25 | No | No | Special session, re: redistricting, 12/9/25 |
| Vermont | 1/8/25 | 6/17/25 | 3/14/25 | No | Yes | |||
| Virginia | 1/8/25 | 2/22/25 | 1/17/25 | 1/17/25 | 2/4/25 | Yes | No | Special session, re: redistricting, 10/27/25 - 10/31/25 |
| Washington | 1/13/25 | 4/27/25 | 3/12/25 | No | Yes | |||
| West Virginia | 2/12/25 | 4/12/25 | 3/18/25 | 3/24/25 | 4/2/25 | No | Yes | |
| Wisconsin | 1/6/25 | 12/31/25 | No | Yes | ||||
| Wyoming | 1/14/25 | 3/6/25 | 2/3/25 | 1/29/25 | 2/12/25 | No | No | |