Committee concurs in study to examine moving fiscal notes to legislative staff
Katie Zolnikov presented HJ 40, a study to assess whether Montana's legislative fiscal division could prepare fiscal notes now done by the executive budget office; senators cited past examples of "death by fiscal note," and the committee concurred and sent the study to the floor by voice vote.
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Representative Katie Zolnikov presented House Joint Resolution 40 on behalf of Representative Sullivan, asking the committee to study what it would take for the legislative branch to prepare fiscal notes rather than the executive branch budget office. Zolnikov said the study would examine whether the legislative fiscal division has the capacity to produce notes and whether earlier collaboration during drafting could reduce confusion and late amendments when fiscal notes arrive.
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