Committee on Appropriations sets House Bill 2007 as annual reconciliation bill

At a conference of the Committee on Appropriations, members agreed to use House Bill 2007 as the committee's annual reconciliation bill to resolve conflicting language that was amended into multiple measures.

The move is intended to let the revisers' office reconcile inconsistencies across enacted bills. A committee member proposed the approach, saying, "I would just propose using that, as being considered for the annual reconciliation bill," and noted a handout from the revisers identifying specific conflicts. Chairman (unnamed) asked whether the senate side agreed, and the transcript records affirmative response.

Senator Penny asked whether the committee was "approving this as a whole" or would review it again, and the proposer replied that the revisers would correct conflicting language and that Jill could speak to the specific items later but that the committee would "hold off on having Jill go through all of the items." The committee concluded the item with the statement, "Okay. So, house bill 2 0 0 7 is passed out as a reconciliation bill." The transcript does not record a roll-call or recorded tally.

The action signals routine annual housekeeping: reconciling statutory or bill-language conflicts through a single reconciliation vehicle prepared by the revisers' office. The transcript indicates staff will supply specific reconciliations (a handout from the revisers was referenced) and that detailed review by staff member Jill was deferred during the session.

No dates, vote counts, or amendments were specified in the transcript. The committee did not state any change to the scope of the bill in the recorded remarks; the discussion focused on letting the revisers' office reconcile the conflicting language in the manner used for previous annual reconciliation bills.