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Committee organizes workgroup recommendations into five draft committee bills and conducts language reviews
Summary
Staff presented five draft committee bills that package prior workgroup recommendations (manufactured housing code consolidation, industrialized housing incentives, construction cost reductions, municipal enforcement pilot and code enforcement training) and the committee conducted language reviews, including an 'ought not to pass' on a submitted minority report; the committee stressed these drafts are for printing and public hearings, not committee endorsement.
Committee staff organized more than 30 recommendations from prior workgroups into five draft committee bills and presented those drafts for the committee to authorize them to be printed for public hearings.
The five buckets include consolidating statutory provisions governing manufactured housing communities, an industrialized construction and housing incentive package, a bill to reduce certain residential construction costs (including elevator communication and video requirements), and a municipal enforcement pilot and training package that would fund code enforcement and pilot regional approaches. Analysts noted the drafts are preliminary and will be cleaned up by the reviser's office; the committee has not taken a position on the substantive merits by reporting those drafts for printing.
The committee also performed language review on two items, including a minority report identified as 1926. Representative Collamore moved to reconsider and then register the minority report as 'ought not to pass'; the roll call recorded unanimous votes of those present to do so.
Next steps: the draft committee bills will be printed and scheduled for public hearings; the committee emphasized that reporting a draft for printing does not imply endorsement of content and invited stakeholders to engage in the public‑hearing process.
