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House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law committee holds orientation on jurisdiction, budgets and data practices
Summary
At an organizational meeting, House committee staff reviewed the panel's budget accounts, how fiscal notes are prepared, the committee's role on government data practices, and the function of the Competency Restoration Board, Chair Rep. Peggy Scott said.
Rep. Peggy Scott, chair of the House Committee on Judiciary Finance and Civil Law, opened an orientation meeting where nonpartisan staff outlined the panel’s jurisdiction, the agencies and accounts the committee oversees, and routine processes for fiscal notes and appropriations.
House fiscal staff member John Walls walked members through the committee’s spreadsheet of agencies and base budgets, identifying the Supreme Court, court of appeals, district courts and multiple boards and commissions as the units under the panel’s jurisdiction. Walls said the committee’s annual base for judiciary finance in the current biennium is about $696.9 million and described how decision items from the governor’s budget or member bills will appear under each agency line on the…
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