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House passes substitute to clarify Community Impact Fund and legislative oversight after tense debate
Summary
Lawmakers approved a second substitute to H.B. 416 that reallocates certain mineral-lease funds and clarifies the Community Impact Board’s makeup. A prolonged exchange over adding additional nonvoting legislative members to the board produced failed amendments; the House passed the substitute 71–0.
Representatives debated a complex second substitute to H.B. 416 on Feb. 23, 1995, which clarifies how mineral-lease funds are treated, shifts some allocations back to the Community Impact Board, allows higher education to compete for certain funds, and places a legislative representative and senator as nonvoting members on the board.
Sponsor Bradley T. Johnson described the change as a technical…
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