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Ways and Means committee gives favorable report to bill codifying long‑standing budget provisos
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 22‑0 to give a favorable report on House Bill 3,843, a codification bill that moves long‑standing budget provisos into permanent law; the committee adopted a subcommittee amendment that removed a Department of Social Services proviso the agency said it no longer needed.
The House Ways and Means Committee gave a favorable report to House Bill 3,843, a codification bill that would move longstanding budget provisos into permanent law, by a roll‑call vote of 22 to 0.
Representative Moss, who explained the bill to the committee, said the measure mirrors the bill that passed the House last year and “codifies provisos that have been in the budget for at least 16 years.” He said the subcommittee’s amendment “strikes 40 four‑six‑one hundred and 20 2, from DHS, which the agency said they no longer needed that proviso.”
The nut graf: the bill is presented as noncontroversial and intended to convert frequently reused provisos from temporary budget language into the state code. According to the committee exchange, the House passed the same text unanimously in the prior session but the bill did not receive a Senate hearing.
In debate the committee did not raise additional substantive objections; the pending question before the roll call was adoption of the subcommittee amendment, which passed on voice vote, and then the committee proceeded to the roll call on the bill itself. By the roll call the committee reported the bill favorably, 22 to 0.
Vote tally recorded on the transcript lists the following members as voting yes: Mr. Ballantyne; Mr. Bannister; Mr. Clyburn; Ms. Cobb Hunter; Ms. Crawford; Mr. Collins; Ms. Dillard; Mr. Hardy; Mr. Hayes; Mr. Hewitt; Mr. Hosey; Mr. Howard; Mr. Long; Mr. Lowe; Mr. Moss; Mr. Murphy; Mr. Newton; Mr. Rutherford; Mr. Stavrinakis; Mr. Taylor; Mr. Weeks; Mr. Whitmire; Mr. Willis; Mr. Yao (the transcript lists 22 yes votes). The committee record in the transcript states the committee reported the bill favorably by a vote of “22 to nothing.”
Actions recorded in the committee proceeding indicate the subcommittee amendment was adopted before the roll call on the bill. The transcript does not include the amendment text beyond the committee description that it removes a DHS proviso the agency no longer needs. The transcript does not record any additional conditions, referrals, or next‑step actions for the bill in this segment of the meeting.
The transcript evidence for this article begins where the chair introduces House Bill 3,843 and ends where the clerk announces the committee’s 22‑0 favorable report on the bill; the record shows no further debate on the bill in the excerpt provided.
