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Senate approves 273-day transition for legislature finance system after emergency session
Summary
In an emergency session, the Senate passed House Bill 24-82, HD1 to add up to a 273-day transition for implementing the legislature’s finance department, voting 6-1 after one senator argued the move patched a legislative planning failure and criticized a pre-effective-date suspension of payments.
The Senate convened an emergency session and approved House Bill 24-82, HD1 on a 6-1 vote, adopting a measure that adds a transition period of up to 273 days for implementing the legislature’s new finance department.
The bill, read into the record by the floor leader, would amend section 704k of Public Law 24-20 to prevent "disruption or delay of allotments, payments, or expenditures of the legislative branch by adding a transition period of up to 273 days for the implementation of the legislature's finance department and for other purposes," the floor leader said before moving for passage.
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