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Appropriations committee approves amended S 60 after roll-call vote
Summary
The committee voted to adopt the committee-on-agriculture amendment to S 60 (draft 3.1) and recommended the bill as amended by a roll call that produced a 10-0-1 tally; members discussed clerical steps for sending the bill to the floor.
The House Appropriations Committee considered draft 3.1 of an amendment to S 60 and voted Jan. 13 to adopt the committee-on-agriculture's changes and recommend the bill as amended.
Michael Brady walked members through textual edits requested by the committee, including restoring the word "resilience" while omitting "climate," adjusting contingency language to reference fiscal year 2027, and replacing a fixed $67,000 appropriation line with authority for the secretary of agriculture to pay reasonable administrative expenses from the fund.
A motion to favorably support the amendment was made by Tom. The clerk called the roll; the committee reported a vote of 10 yes, 0 no, and 1 absent/other and then moved the bill as amended toward the floor.
Quotable: "By keeping it at 67,000, ... we're moving that conversation to the senate and then to final conversations at the end of the year," one member said while explaining the rationale for language that preserves a notional $67,000 figure in the draft while shifting final funding decisions to subsequent budget work.
What happens next: Committee staff and the temporary clerk will complete the paperwork needed to place the bill on notice for the floor; members said the bill will be on the floor in the next days and staff will circulate final text and titles to the clerk's office.
Ending: The committee completed the S 60 action and proceeded to administrative business on statutory reports.
