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House committee favors bill to restore nonpartisan drafting of ballot titles
Summary
The House committee voted unanimously to recommend House Bill 563, which would return responsibility for writing ballot initiative language to nonpartisan legislative research attorneys and undo a change made last year that routed draft ballot titles to partisan leaders.
Representative Schultz opened the committee hearing on House Bill 563 on the process for ballot titles and asked the panel to support the measure. "I promised, my colleague behind me that I would keep this short and quick. So, I think we can sum it up by this a good bill, vote for him," Schultz said.
The bill would reverse a change made last year that placed responsibility for drafting ballot titles with the speaker and the president, returning the task to nonpartisan legislative research attorneys. "As we went through that process I think we…
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