Appropriations Committee approves several bills, advances consent calendar and votes not to concur on House Bill 504

The Appropriations Committee voted to approve several bills and to place multiple cross-filed measures on a consent calendar during a recorded voting session. The panel also approved a motion not to concur on House Bill 504.

Senate Bill 200, presented at the start of the voting list, is described in the recorded remarks as a renaming measure for supplemental retirement plans. "Renaming bill of, for the, supplemental retirement plans. There are no amendments. Move the bill," said the member who moved the question. The committee completed a roll call with all recorded voting delegates indicating yes; the transcript shows affirmative votes from Vice Chair Chang and Delegates Shetty, Watson, Solomon, Grice, Ivy, Jones, McCaskill, McComas, Spiegel, Beauchamp, Schindler, Stonker, Mangione, Wallach, Heimbaugh, Asaparro, Metzger, Utelson, Edelson, Harris and Forbes. The clerk recorded the motion as passed.

Senate Bill 231 was presented as a departmental bill for the Public Employee Relations Board. "This is a departmental bill for the Public Employee Relations Board, makes a couple of changes to the board, in its, third year of operation,…