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Rules committee deadlocks on calendar after dispute over unemployment benefits for hourly school workers
Summary
The House Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration failed to adopt a calendar for May 2, 2025, after a tied 8-8 roll call. Members were split over whether to remove unemployment insurance eligibility for paraprofessionals, bus drivers and other hourly school workers as part of a broader education-finance package.
The House Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration on Thursday failed to adopt a calendar to consider two bills on Friday, May 2, 2025, after an 8-8 roll-call tie that tracked a partisan dispute over whether to remove unemployment insurance eligibility for hourly school workers such as paraprofessionals and school bus drivers.
The committee voted on a motion to calendar House File 2433 and Senate File 1740 for Friday under House rules 1.21 and 3.33, with a prefiling requirement for amendments. Representative Long said, "So at this time, we're not prepared to, accept this calendar for the day and we'd, ask for a roll call vote." The motion failed on a roll call after extended debate.
Why it matters: Calendaring the bills would have scheduled an education-finance bill for floor consideration and accelerated negotiations with the Senate on the two-year budget. Committee members said the disagreement centers on a policy change in the proposed education package that would affect unemployment…
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