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House Appropriations Committee reports multiple bills to the floor, including ban on extra paper-billing fees
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee reported several bills to the House floor after short debate and roll call votes, including a bill that would prohibit charging customers extra for paper bills. A six-bill package was reported unanimously; three tax- and benefits-related bills drew partisan division but were sent to the floor.
The House Appropriations Committee voted to report a package of six bills and several individual measures to the full House, the committee chair announced after roll calls and brief staff summaries.
An executive director for the committee summarized the bill slate for members before votes, saying, "We have House Bill 81, [which] prohibits charging customers consumers additional fees to receive paper billing statements or to pay by mail," and describing the other measures under consideration.
Why it matters: The measures touch on consumer billing, unemployment eligibility for some school employees, sentencing provisions related to corruption of minors, child custody rules, expanding CPACE-eligible projects to include electric vehicle charging infrastructure, workplace violence prevention in health care settings, a veteran-owned business logo, river pilot fee changes, and terminology updates for substance use disorder in state planning. Several…
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