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Committee advances bill to require clarity on local consent calendars
Summary
The House State Affairs Committee voted to send House Bill 172 to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation after hearing proponents and opponents about whether the state should set a statutory definition and minimum pull rules for local governments' consent calendars.
Representative Elaine Price, District 4, Kootenai County, Coeur d'Alene, asked the House State Affairs Committee to introduce House Bill 172, legislation that adds a definition of a "consent calendar" to state code and clarifies that a single member of a local governing body may pull an item from the consent calendar for separate consideration.
The bill's sponsor said the measure is intended to provide statewide consistency for a practice used by city councils and local boards. "This is just adding in code some clarity about what a consent calendar is,"…
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