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Committee debates how to handle Health and Welfare amendment, moves to report bill "as introduced"
Summary
Committee members discussed whether to accept or strike a Health and Welfare Committee amendment that added an appropriation, debated procedures for competing committee reports, and moved to report the bill favorably as introduced. The transcript does not record a definitive final vote tally.
Members of the legislative committee debated how to handle a Health and Welfare Committee amendment to a pending bill that would add an appropriation, and moved to report the bill "as introduced" rather than adopt the competing amendment.
The discussion centered on procedure: whether the committee should strike the Health and Welfare Committee's report or instead recommend a vote against that report after both committees speak. A staff member identified in the record as Committee counsel explained the usual order for handling competing committee reports: "the rule is that you take the committee that was first…
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