The Eighth Osage Nation Congress will meet for its 2023 Hun-Kah Session starting Monday, March 27 in Pawhuska.
The 24-day spring Congressional session is the first of two constitutionally mandated legislative gatherings for the 12-member Congress. Per Osage law, the Hun-Kah Session begins on the last Monday in March of each year.
During the session, Congress will consider filed bills, resolutions and other business matters brought to the Legislative Branch for review and possible action. The Congress also considers individuals appointed to serve on the Nation’s boards and commissions for confirmation votes to serve full terms during the regular Congressional sessions.
The members will meet in Congressional select and standing committee meetings, which will be scheduled as needed throughout the session for initial reviews and consideration of legislative bills and resolutions and possible amendments. The committees also initially consider board and commission appointees, who must provide their professional experience and answer a questionnaire as part of the vetting process to be considered for a vote by session’s end.
Before each Hun-Kah Session’s adjournment, Congress elects their Speaker and Second Speaker officers to serve one-year terms, according to ON Congressional Rules. Congress also forms their select and standing committees at that time, with those committee terms also lasting one year.
During the session and committee meetings held in the Capitol Building along Pawhuska’s Main Street, Congressional public meetings (except executive sessions as allowed by Osage law) will be live-streamed at https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/legislative-branch/live-media
Downloadable copies of filed legislative bills and resolutions, as well as Congressional meeting notices and agendas are posted online to the Legislative Branch website at: https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/who-we-are/legislative-branch
