Conference committee approves SB1170 to speed redevelopment of affordable rental housing

A joint House–Senate conference committee on April 22 approved SB1170, a bill to expedite redevelopment and development of affordable rental housing, advancing a conference draft with amendments.

Committee leaders said the approved conference draft (CD1) takes the HD3 version and replaces the defective effective date with a clean date; the change does not alter the bill's substantive redevelopment provisions. Conferees reported they had drafted a CD1 and agreed on the date language prior to the vote.

Senate and House conferees listed the bill and indicated agreement on the CD1 language. The chair made a recommendation to pass the bill with amendments; conferees voiced their approval and the chair declared the bill passed out of the conference committee with amendments.

The committee's discussion focused on finalizing the conference draft and cleaning the effective date; no further substantive amendments or conditions were recorded in the hearing record. Committee members said the CD1 would be the version advanced for any necessary chamber or fiscal releases.

Votes at the conference committee were recorded as a series of "Aye" responses from conferees; two conferees were marked as excused. The conference committee recorded the motion as approved and the CD1 as the version to be advanced.

The committee did not record further changes to program eligibility or funding in the public hearing record for SB1170; conferees indicated the primary edit was the effective date.

The committee scheduled no additional floor action in this hearing transcript; implementation steps such as fiscal office releases or final chamber actions were not specified in the record.