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Committee debates options to retrieve S60 or add security-fund language to miscellaneous ag bill H484
Summary
Committee members discussed procedural options to regain control of S60 from House Appropriations and whether to insert security-fund language into H484; no formal action was taken during the May 27 meeting.
Committee members discussed several procedural approaches for S60 and related ag policy during the May 27 session but did not take formal action. Members outlined the risks of attempting to pull S60 back from House Appropriations, described parliamentary steps under rule 51 and noted the likelihood of a roll call or division if the body is asked to relieve appropriations and return the bill to the agriculture committee.
Representative Leland Morgan and others described continuing outreach to members of House Appropriations to ask why the committee retained the measure when it currently has no funding attached. Committee members discussed an alternative: placing the committee’s “security fund” language into the miscellaneous agriculture bill H484 so the concept would remain on the calendar without attaching money this year. Participants debated whether inserting fund language with no appropriation would nonetheless require another referral to appropriations because the text references a fund.
Speakers agreed to continue discussions with appropriations leadership and to consider procedural options ahead of the next legislative calendar events. No motion was made and no roll-call vote occurred on S60 or H484 during the meeting.
