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Most governors unveil their priorities in “state of the state addresses” or budget speeches presented to the legislatures early in the year. Below is a list of this year's speeches and links to those that have occurred.
Stateline.org also has archived these speeches going back to 2000 and has put together a special page linking to daily news items about the governors' speeches.

Interested in also knowing when the legislatures are in session? Stateline.org has also compiled a table of those dates.

StateAdditional
Resources
Speech
date
Alabama
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 12 
AlaskaFull Text, SummaryJan. 20
ArizonaFull Text  SummaryJan. 11 
Arkansas
TBA 
CaliforniaFull Text  SummaryJan. 6 
Colorado
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 14 
ConnecticutFull Text Feb. 3
DelawareFull Text  SummaryJan. 21
FloridaMarch 2
GeorgiaFull Text  SummaryJan. 13
Hawaii
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 25
Idaho
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 11
Illinois
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 13 
IndianaFull Text  Summary
Jan. 19
IowaFull Text  SummaryJan. 12
KansasFull Text  SummaryJan. 11
Kentucky
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 6 
Louisiana
Expected March/April
MaineFull Text   SummaryJan. 21
MarylandFull Text
Feb. 2
Massachusetts
Full Text   Summary
Jan. 21
Michigan
Full Text
Feb. 3
Minnesota
Feb. 11
Mississippi
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 18
MissouriFull Text  Summary
Jan. 20
Montana
No Session 
Nebraska
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 14
Nevada
Feb. 8
New HampshireFull Text  SummaryJan. 21
New JerseyFull Text  SummaryJan. 12
New Mexico

Full Text  Summary

Jan. 19
New YorkFull Text  Summary Jan. 6
North Carolina
No Address
North Dakota
No Session
Ohio
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 26
Oklahoma
Full Text
Feb. 1
Oregon
TBA 
Pennsylvania
Expected early February 
Rhode IslandFull Text  Summary
Jan. 26
South CarolinaFull Text  Summary
 Jan. 20
South Dakota
Full Text Summary
Jan. 12
Tennessee
TBA
Texas
No Session
UtahFull Text  Summary
Jan. 26
Vermont
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 7
VirginiaFull Text  Summary (Kaine)
Full Text  Summary
(McDonnell)
Jan. 13

Jan. 18
Washington
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 12
West Virginia
Full Text  Summary
Jan. 13
WisconsinFull Text  Summary
Jan. 26
Wyoming 
Feb. 8
Compiled by Stateline.org staff


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