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Ways and Means moves dozens of bills across budget, housing, health and justice policy to Rules
Summary
After staff briefings across five bill packets, the committee recommended numerous substitutes and amendments on bills covering grocery‑store closure notice, voting access for military and tribal voters, tort arbitration, victim‑centered court procedures, property tax reforms, housing finance changes, and environmental measures; many bills were advanced to the Rules Committee subject to signatures.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee spent Feb. 9 briefing and deciding dozens of bills across five groups of packeted legislation, moving numerous substitutes and amendments to the Rules Committee.
Early in the day the committee heard a staff briefing on Senate Bill 6,147, which would require grocery establishments in designated food‑desert or low‑income census tracts to provide notice to the public, local officials and the attorney general prior to closure and to engage in a good‑faith consultation to attempt to continue service. Staff described substitute 1 (Senator Conway) as narrowing coverage to larger stores…
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