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House committee adopts amendment narrowing contract oversight provisions in Senate Bill 5
Summary
The House Ways and Means Committee adopted Amendment 10 to Senate Bill 5, keeping AI reporting and federal-fund notification but narrowing contract disqualification language and excluding INDOT from certain reporting and contract terms; a separate amendment proposing salary forfeiture for noncompliant, separately elected officials failed on a roll‑
Representative Thomas Layman, offering Amendment 10 to Senate Bill 5, told the House Ways and Means Committee the change refines the bill’s approach to financial responsibility and transparency while removing provisions the administration can already address under existing law. “We allow new structure of transparency and accountability, and we want to make sure we’re staying in our legislative lane,” Layman said as he walked the committee through the merged amendment.
The amendment leaves in place a provision allowing use of artificial intelligence for reporting and maintains a requirement that agencies report new federal-fund requests; it adds a review requirement when a federal grant application would require matching state funds. “If it’s going to involve some state money, then that process does now go through a review process of the budget committee before applying for the said funds,” Layman said.
Amendment 10 also tweaked…
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