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Finance panel reconsiders HB781, forwards cellphone policy language into budget bills

2730342 · March 21, 2025
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Summary

The Finance - Division I committee reconsidered its prior retention of HB781, voted to recommend OTP and approved placing the bill's cellphone policy language into HB2 and a $1 million funding adjustment in HB1.

The Finance - Division I meeting on March 21 reconsidered House Bill 781, moved it to OTP (ought to pass), and adopted language to fold the bill's cellphone-use policy into House Bill 2 while adjusting House Bill 1's funding.

Committee member Representative Popovich moved to reconsider the division's prior retain vote on HB781 and later moved to recommend OTP; a second was recorded and the committee voted unanimously in favor of OTP (7-0). The committee then voted to adopt the same cellphone-policy language as an amendment (1190H) into HB2 and to…

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