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Committee concurs to end printed code index, cites about $40,000 biennium savings
Summary
The Legislative Administration Committee voted to concur in House Bill 115, which would eliminate the statutory requirement to print a paper index to the state code and rely on an electronic index instead; proponents said printing is rarely used and costly.
The Legislative Administration Committee voted to concur in House Bill 115, a proposal to remove the requirement to publish a printed index to the state code, saying the printed indexes are rarely used and the change would save about $40,000 per biennium.
The bill, introduced for the record by Representative Fitzpatrick, would eliminate the statutory requirement to print the code index and rely on electronic publication. Representative Fitzpatrick said the current printing contract runs roughly 40,000 copies a year while “they’ve sold three copies of those a year.” He said the bill would eliminate a…
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