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Senate Education Committee formalizes fiscal-impact rule, adopts lottery-scholarship delay provision
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to codify its long-standing practice requiring fiscal-impact statements for K–12 bills and to list bills affecting lottery-funded higher-education scholarships as pending until a fiscal statement is produced; senators warned the change could delay noncontroversial measures.
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday adopted a formal rule that bills related to K–12 education will not be taken up until a fiscal-impact statement is provided and placed on the committee agenda as “pending fiscal impact.” The committee also adopted a new provision implementing a 2021 law requiring joint House–Senate consideration of bills that create or affect higher-education scholarships funded by net lottery proceeds or the Higher Education Grants Fund; those bills will…
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