Committee clarifies interim committee rules, approves HB 142 to adjust partisan bill-draft limits
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.
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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.
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