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Panel backs bill to allow updated fiscal notes for ballot measures ahead of fall elections
Summary
Senators voted to advance HB 1063, which would allow fiscal notes for citizen-initiated ballot measures to be updated closer to an election so voters receive more current cost estimates.
The committee gave a do-pass recommendation to HB 1063, a bill to allow the Legislative Research Council or other appropriate authority to update fiscal notes for citizen-initiated ballot measures nearer to the election.
Proponents said existing law can leave voters with outdated fiscal estimates because fiscal notes are sometimes prepared long before an election. "It only makes sense that we get the best information out, as close to the election as we can to the voting public so they can make…
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