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Appropriations committee advances amended House Bill 1015 after debate over state hospital funding
Summary
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to advance House Bill 1015 as amended, approving a technical funding change and rejecting an amendment to scale back the proposed state hospital project. Lawmakers debated options including $25 million in deferred maintenance and a $100 million new facility designed for up to 96 beds.
The Appropriations Committee advanced House Bill 1015 as amended on a 13-3 vote Monday after debating how much to fund work on the state hospital and a related transfer to the social services fund.
Chairman Beckettall, chair of the Appropriations Committee, opened the session by noting the committee had reached a quorum and moved into consideration of bill amendments. Early in the meeting Senator Wozniak moved “to change the funding amount from $2.32 to $2.35,” a technical adjustment tied to a Section 8 transfer into the social services fund (the transcript records a separate reference to a $242,000,000 transfer and a $250,000,000 appropriations bucket). Senator Dever seconded the motion. The amendment passed on a voice roll call recorded as 15-0-1.
The committee then considered an amendment offered by Senator Eberly (amendment 02015) to combine two funding actions: $25,000,000 to remodel…
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