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Committee reconsiders and amends SB 761, rescinds Ways and Means referral and assigns carrier
Summary
After a motion to reconsider, the Senate committee adopted dash-4 amendments to SB 761, removed a prior dash-2 fiscal provision, rescinded referral to Ways and Means and assigned Senator Nash as carrier.
The Senate Committee on Veterans, Emergency Management, Federal and World Affairs took procedural steps to reconsider and amend Senate Bill 761. The committee first voted to suspend rules and reconsider the prior committee vote on SB 761, a motion that passed on roll call.
Senator Brock Smith moved the committee to reconsider its earlier due-pass-as-amended recommendation. The committee then adopted dash-4 amendments. During discussion members clarified that the dash-2 amendment previously included a $2,500,000 fiscal appropriation; removing that dash-2 provision removed the fiscal exposure, and members said that is why the committee rescinded the subsequent referral to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means.
Senator Nadje (mover of the subsequent motion) moved SB 761 as amended to the floor with a due-pass recommendation and asked that the referral to Ways and Means be rescinded; the committee approved the motion by roll call. Chair Manning recorded that the motion passed and the committee designated Senator Nash as the carrier of SB 761.
The committee's actions effectively returned SB 761 to committee consideration, adopted further amendments (dash-4), removed the dash-2 fiscal language, and advanced the bill to the Senate floor without a Ways and Means referral. Committee members characterized the procedural sequence as necessary to unwind the prior vote and resolve the fiscal referral question.
