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House Finance, Ways and Means sets budget hearing schedule, tight amendment rules
Summary
Chairman Hicks opened the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee and announced the committee will begin budget hearings next week, set deadlines and procedures for filing amendments, and established rules for testimony and local bills.
Chairman Hicks called the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee to order for February 2025 and told members the committee will begin budget hearings “next week on Tuesday, February 2025” and aims to conclude by Monday, March 17.
The announcement matters because the committee’s schedule and filing rules shape how state agencies, legislators and constituents present budget requests and amendments during a six-week hearing period that will inform the Legislature’s final budget decisions.
Hicks said members are required to attend department and agency budget hearings and that hearings will begin at 8 a.m. on Mondays to fit the…
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