House Appropriations advances a package of bills, adopting technical amendments and moving several measures to Committee of the Whole

The House Appropriations Committee convened and advanced a package of Senate bills, adopting technical amendments where provided and moving measures to the Committee of the Whole.

Among the items the committee advanced without extended debate were: Senate Bill 27 (two technical amendments adopted in committee packet), Senate Bill 34, Senate Bill 75 (passed unanimously), Senate Bill 84 (one amendment adopted), Senate Bill 272, Senate Bill 297 and Senate Bill 189. Committee members typically had no substantive questions during the amendment phases and the committee recorded each bill’s committee vote as shown in the hearing record.

Representative Joseph introduced technical amendments to Senate Bill 27 and described them as technical and related to leftover appropriations and language around funds; the committee adopted both amendments. Several other bills were moved without amendment or with single technical amendments in the packet. Where recorded, committee votes ranged from unanimous approval to recorded tallies (for example, one bill was recorded as passing 9 to 2).

These committee actions are procedural steps that send the bills to a Committee of the Whole for further consideration by the full House. No witness testimony on these items was reported in Appropriations during the hearing.