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Committee gives favorable straw poll to Senate amendment fixing Barrie charter fiscal-year wording
Summary
Legislative counsel briefed the committee on a technical Senate amendment to H.10 correcting fiscal-year language in the Charter of the City of Barrie; the committee recorded a favorable straw poll (10–0–1).
Legislative Counsel Tucker Anderson told the Government Operations & Military Affairs committee on April 22 that a Senate amendment to H.10 corrects wording in the City of Barrie charter that effectively omitted a day from the fiscal year.
Why it matters: The amendment is procedural and technical but removes an unintended gap in the charter language that could create legal or accounting ambiguity.
Tucker Anderson explained that the Senate proposal struck a clause that read "and end on the June" so the fiscal year would instead begin on July 1 and run continuously into the next year. Anderson described the drafting problem as a tiny timing gap produced when a statute specifies a fiscal year as beginning and ending on particular days; by convention those triggers occur at midnight and can leave a fraction of time where no fiscal year exists.
The committee took a straw poll on whether to "accept and find favorable this change by the Senate." The clerk announced the result as "10–0–1 favorable to accept." A committee member noted the procedural delay that allowed members to see the bill return for consideration.
Ending: Committee members treated the amendment as a technical clean-up and recorded the favorable straw poll for the Senate amendment; no formal final enactment occurred at this meeting.
