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Mercer bill would limit committee pre-introduction power to groups with legislative majorities
Summary
Representative Bill Mercer introduced House Bill 546 to prevent interim councils or working groups that lack a legislative majority from directly pre-introducing committee bills, citing the Criminal Justice Oversight Committee as a unique case granted that authority.
Representative Bill Mercer (House District 52, Billings) told the committee that House Bill 546 would restrict which interim groups may pre-introduce committee legislation by requiring a majority of members be legislators.
Mercer said the Criminal Justice Oversight Committee (CJOC) received the uncommon authority in a prior session to introduce its own legislation, and he described the CJOC as "made up of probably…
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