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JBC advances package of budget and policy bills and removes one draft from its list
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee voted to introduce a broad package of bill drafts that staff presented during the hearing. The committee also removed the bill to create an Office of Judicial Discipline Ombudsman from its list and agreed to take associated savings for the current and next fiscal years.
Committee staff presented a series of bill drafts and technical cleanup bills during the hearing and the committee approved introduction for a broad set of them. Several of these were budget-related housekeeping or program repeals the committee decided to carry into the session. At the same time the committee removed a bill concerning the creation of an Office of Judicial Discipline Ombudsman from its bill list, and members directed staff to take the appropriation off the books for the current and following fiscal years.
Items the committee approved to introduce (motions recorded on the transcript) included, among others:
- Deposit bond forfeitures in judicial…
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