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House debate over SJR1 spotlights shift in appropriation prioritization to executive committee
Summary
A proposed joint rules change would route fiscal-only appropriation requests through appropriation subcommittees and give executive appropriations the final prioritization, prompting floor debate over concentrated decision-making and a decision to defer the resolution for further review.
Representative Goodfellow, sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 1, told the House that the measure creates a two-tiered approach for appropriation requests, moving many fiscal-only requests out of standing committees into the appropriations subcommittee process and then to executive appropriations for final prioritization. He described the change as "a 2 tiered process" intended to streamline how fiscal notes are handled while retaining the regular bill process for measures…
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