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Committee schedules juvenile services bills and discusses standalone bill on session structure
Summary
Members of the Appropriations — Government Operations Division said juvenile services bills in the docket will be heard this afternoon and discussed a separate bill (2035) that would change an adoption schedule from a '3 and 3' to a '4 and 4' format; senators said the bills are standalone and do not require attachment to other budgets.
Chairman Watson told the Appropriations — Government Operations Division that the committee’s afternoon session would include hearings on juvenile services bills and other standalone items.
"The 2 bills, mister chairman, that we're hearing this afternoon, they're all stand alone. We wouldn't they don't need to be attached to any other, other bills or any other budgets?" a committee member asked. Chairman Watson replied that, to his understanding, the bills are separate and do not need to be attached to other budgets.
The transcript identifies juvenile services bills numbered 20 36 and 23 45 as being in the committee binders. Chairman Watson also summarized another bill, 20 35, as a measure that would adopt a "4 and 4 versus our 3 and 3." He said he had a likely sense of the committee’s direction on that item but deferred to leadership and further review.
Committee members discussed scheduling and logistics for hearings and noted that additional orphan bills were starting to appear on the docket. No formal votes or final actions on the juvenile services bills or bill 2035 were recorded in the provided transcript; the committee planned to hear them in the afternoon and to review any proposed amendments at that time.
Staff members were asked to prepare materials and copies for members; the chair said he would review long budget sheets and testimony before the afternoon session.
