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House committee rejects Senate amendment that would have barred governing-body members from filling municipal vacancies
Summary
After testimony from the Municipal League’s general counsel warning of unintended consequences for small cities, the committee voted not to concur in a Senate amendment to the municipal vacancy law.
The City, County & Local Affairs Committee voted against concurring in a Senate amendment that would have changed the procedures for filling municipal vacancies. Representative Stetson Painter (District 3, Baxter and Fulton counties) explained the Senate amendment altered multiple subdivisions of the uniform municipal vacancy procedure, including provisions that, as amended, would have prohibited a member of a municipality's…
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