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Appropriations Committee approves changes to emergency commission and contingency approval process
Summary
The committee gave a due‑pass recommendation to House Bill 12‑33, which restructures approvals for the Emergency Commission and Budget Section, standardizes handling of federal and special funds, changes certain timing provisions and sets biennial appropriation caps for contingency approvals.
Representative Austin Schauer presented House Bill 12‑33, an agency bill described as clarifying and making more consistent the Emergency Commission and Budget Section approval processes for transfers, fund acceptance and state contingencies actions.
What the bill does: Schauer and legislative counsel Alan Knudson explained key changes: reduce the period when the budget section may not act on certain higher‑education building approvals from…
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