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Senate Budget committee favorably releases a raft of bills covering education, public safety, health and economic measures
Summary
On March 17 the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee favorably released dozens of bills, including measures on farmland preservation, teacher recruitment, social work licensure, step‑therapy guardrails, buyback pension credits, and tax-credit purchasing; most measures were released with committee amendments and recorded roll call votes.
The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on March 17 moved dozens of bills forward, voting to favorably release a broad package of measures that will now proceed to further legislative action.
Among the bills the committee released were measures on land conservation (S‑699), a social work licensure compact (S‑2688/A‑2813), teacher‑recruitment and pension membership changes (S‑2078/A‑1675), step‑therapy protocol reforms (S‑3533), multiple pension‑related buyback and survivor‑benefit bills (S‑3606, S‑3607), public‑safety response and crowd control measures aimed at "pop‑up" gatherings (S‑3506, S‑3507), and consumer protections and criminal penalties tied to the substance‑use disorder treatment sector (S‑3952, S‑3955 and related amendments). Committee…
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