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Conference committee files 'agree to disagree' after debate over folding SB 237 into HB 2062
Summary
Conferees on the Committee on Judiciary did not reach agreement on inserting the contents of Senate Bill 237 into House Bill 2062 and instead prepared an "agree to disagree" report that the Senate will present to the House.
Conferees on the Committee on Judiciary left a conference meeting without resolving whether to merge the contents of Senate Bill 237 into House Bill 2062, agreeing instead to prepare a short "agree to disagree" report for the Senate to run in the House.
The matter centers on competing drafts of HB 2062 and an offer from the Senate to add the House-amended contents of SB 237 into HB 2062 while retaining the House amendments to HB 2062. The proposed combination would insert tax-related language into the child-support bill; several conferees raised legal and implementation concerns about that approach.
Madam Chair summarized the Senate position as a counteroffer to «add the contents of Senate Bill 237 as it was amended by the House into HB 2062, and to keep the amendments that the House put into HB 2062.» The reviser confirmed there were no newly…
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