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Conference committee approves LC form on House Bill 1218, keeps $1,000,000 economic-analysis threshold and orders study
Summary
A legislative conference committee agreed to adopt LC form 02/2005 for House Bill 1218, preserving a $1,000,000 placeholder threshold for when an economic analysis is required for assessment-drain projects and directing a study to legislative management to inform a future threshold.
Chairman Hager reconvened the conference committee on House Bill 1218 on the LC form 02/2005 and the committee moved and approved an amended LC form that preserves a $1,000,000 threshold for when the State will not require an economic analysis for an assessment-drain project and directs a study to legislative management to determine an appropriate threshold.
The committee’s action kept in place language in section 3 that states the commission may not require an economic analysis for an assessment-drain project if the project is expected to cost less than $1,000,000. Representative Doctor, who moved the amendments adopting LC form 02/2005 plus additional changes, said an email from Reese Haas, director of the Department of Water Resources, showed recent project cost distributions: “since 2019, totally…
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