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House Appropriations Committee advances six bills to Committee of the Whole
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted to send six bills to the Committee of the Whole, adopting several amendments that change vehicle-registration enforcement and remove one policy from a child‑support evaluation.
The House Appropriations Committee voted to advance six bills to the Committee of the Whole, approving House Bills 10-13 (8–3), 11-12 (passed; recorded as 8–2–3), 12-79 (7–4), 12-10 (unanimous), 10-69 (unanimous) and 12-09 (7–4). Several bills were amended before the committee vote.
Why it matters: The committee’s actions move a set of spending and enforcement-related bills forward in the session. Amendments adopted on two bills change how vehicle-registration violations are handled and remove a specific child-support policy from a scheduled evaluation, which sponsors said reduces fiscal impact.
House Bill 10-13: The chair recapped the committee’s earlier work and recommended against adopting the bill’s J amendment, saying the Department of Law receives reappropriated funding on a three‑year averaging basis and does not need the additional, small appropriation. “I do not think that they need this appropriation. They're not hiring 0.1 FTE and even this minute…
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