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Senate committee hears bill to expand reporting on large fiscal notes, lowers trigger to $500,000
Summary
A Senate Finance and Claims hearing focused on the fiscal reporting changes in House Bill 228, which would require more frequent and lower-threshold reporting of actual implementation costs for legislation that produces substantial fiscal notes and would remove a sunset provision.
Representative Bill Mercer opened the Senate Finance and Claims Committee hearing on House Bill 228, saying the measure would extend and tweak an existing reporting provision and remove a sunset provision that otherwise would end the requirement.
The bill would lower the reporting trigger from $1 million to $500,000 of estimated expenditures in any one fiscal year across a four‑year projection window and would require agencies to report twice yearly rather than once. "We're just trying to get this sort of put into the code and remove the…
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