Committee on Legislative Modernization advances SB 77 to exempt abolished, inactive agencies from five-year review

The Committee on Legislative Modernization voted unanimously March 10 to move Senate Bill 77 favorably out of committee. Committee members heard a short summary from the committee reviser and then approved a motion to pass the bill out of committee by unanimous consent.

Natalie, the committee reviser, summarized SB 77 as removing abolished and inactive state agencies from the state's five-year agency review requirement. She told the committee she could take questions, and no questions were recorded during the meeting.

Committee members noted the bill had been considered at the committee's prior hearing, where there was one proponent and no opponents or neutrals on the record. After the reviser—s summary, the vice chairman moved that the committee "pass Senate Bill 77, favorably for passage," a motion that Representative Brantley seconded. The committee chair called for discussion, none was offered, and the committee approved the motion by unanimous consent; no roll call vote was recorded.

The meeting included a brief statement that the committee had only one item of business that day. After the SB 77 motion carried, the chair asked if there was any other business; seeing none, the committee adjourned.

The meeting transcript does not record any amendments to SB 77, any formal objections, a roll-call tally, or a schedule for further action on the bill.