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Committee accepts Ways and Means strike‑all amendment to H.243, removes fee changes pending further study
Summary
The Committee on Commerce & Economic Development voted to default favorably on a Ways and Means strike‑all amendment to H.243 that removes statutory fee changes and adds a Secretary of State study of business filing fees; the committee recorded votes on the amendment and on the committee report.
The Committee on Commerce & Economic Development on March 18, 2025 accepted a House Ways and Means strike‑all amendment to H.243 that removes detailed fee changes from the bill and adds a requirement that the Secretary of State study business filing fees.
Representative Bridget Burkhart, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, reported that Ways and Means “amended out our jurisdiction over the bill, by deciding that it was not the right time to take up all the fees and determine how to harmonize all those fees that were in the bill.” She said the committee declined to retain a large fee section because the Secretary of State’s office only recently obtained better filing‑level data and the office’s new information system…
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