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Legislative Process Committee adopts technical house, senate and joint rules changes
Summary
The Legislative Process Committee voted to approve house, senate and joint rules resolutions that make technical changes including drafting method clarifications, committee name updates and policy reference updates.
The Legislative Process Committee voted unanimously to approve three resolutions updating technical provisions in the House rules, Senate rules and Joint rules. The measures, presented by legislative counsel, make drafting‑system and terminology changes and correct outdated committee names and references.
Megan Bolen of the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel told the committee the resolutions were intended to address “very technical, minor changes” so they could be handled early in the session. Bolen said the most substantive drafting change is a limitation imposed by the legislature’s new drafting system: adding or removing an entire section of legislation or otherwise modifying a…
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