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Senate State and Local Government Committee advances a package of bills and agency budgets
Summary
The committee approved two dozen items on its calendar, moving bills on public-safety funding, local government authority, housing finance and utility rules to the next stage; several agency budgets were also advanced to the finance committee.
The Senate State and Local Government Committee voted on a series of bills and budget items and advanced them to the next step in the legislative process.
The package included resolutions and bills on 911 funding, local-government authority to remove appointed board members, housing finance authority borrowing limits, utility governance and emergency lending, tax authority for mineral severance on county roads, and several agency budgets. Many measures passed on largely bipartisan votes; a small number drew recorded opposition.
Votes at a glance (motion text summarizes committee action; vote tallies shown as recorded in the committee roll calls): - Consent calendar: passed (9–0). Motion: adopt consent calendar; mover: Chairman Briggs; second: not specified. Outcome: approved. - SB 251 (Yeager) — allow certain retirees to return to hard-to-fill public-sector jobs and draw a reduced retirement payment: passed (9–0). - SB 390 (Rose) —…
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