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Conference committee accepts committee language on municipally owned infrastructure; cash allocation agreed, bonded funding unresolved
Summary
Members of a Senate-House conference committee on May 7 said they would accept the other committee's proposal on language tying ACCD support to municipally owned infrastructure for housing; they agreed to a cash allocation but said differences remain over bonded funding.
Members of a conference committee composed of the Senate Institutions and House Institutions and Corrections met May 7 and agreed to accept the partner committee's proposal on statutory language tying Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) support to municipally owned infrastructure projects that enable new or rehabilitative housing.
"Okay. It's May 7, and we are back in senate in institutions in a conference committee with house institutions and corrections. And, madam chair, thank you very much for the offer and the proposal of, your committee, and we would like to accept it," said Speaker 1, a conference committee member representing the Senate Institutions side.
The committee discussed specific draft language. Speaker 4 read the provision aloud: "So 2 ACCD per municipally owned infrastructure improvements that support the development of new or rehabilitative housing. 2.5." The participants treated that language as the working text for ACCD-related infrastructure support.
On funding, committee members said they had reached agreement on cash allocations but not on bond-funded amounts. Speaker 2 said, "Great. As I add, for now, the 600,000 cash would go into major payments with EGS?" Speaker 1 replied, "Yes. And that's acceptable also. K. Okay." Later in the discussion Speaker 2 said, "Okay. We still have some differences there on a bonded piece." The transcript records a separate reference to "we agreed to the $6.25," but the item was not specified further in the meeting record provided and no formal vote or motion was recorded in the transcript excerpt.
Committee members scheduled further work to resolve remaining issues. Speaker 1 suggested continuing the discussion the next day; participants discussed meeting in the afternoon or at 11 a.m. to finish remaining negotiations.
This exchange in the conference committee reflects agreement on draft statutory language tying ACCD support to municipally owned infrastructure intended to support housing, agreement on a specified cash transfer to be routed for major payments with an entity identified in the transcript as "EGS," and outstanding differences on the portion of funding to be provided as bonded dollars. The transcript excerpt does not record a formal motion, second, roll-call vote, or details such as whether the referenced dollar figures are thousands or millions.
Next steps recorded in the meeting excerpt were scheduling additional negotiation time to resolve bonded funding differences; the committee did not record a formal adoption in the provided transcript excerpt.
