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Committee clarifies interim committee rules, approves HB 142 to adjust partisan bill-draft limits
Summary
HB 142, which raises the cap on partisan bill-draft requests by interim committees from four to five and defines 'partisan basis' as a vote by the majority party, passed the committee 4–2 after debate over past ambiguities and committee composition.
The Senate Legislative Administration Committee on Thursday approved House Bill 142, which would increase the number of partisan bill-draft requests an interim committee may make from four to five and explicitly defines "partisan basis" as a vote in which members from only the majority party vote to request a bill draft.
Sponsor Lucas Schubert (House District 8) said the change addresses an incident in the previous…
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