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Senate Ways and Means narrows late provisos, votes to return policy provisos to committee
Summary
After a lengthy procedural debate, the Senate Ways and Means Committee voted to return policy-related provisos to standing committees for fuller vetting and recommended attaching a staff-prepared financial note to future provisos. The change aims to separate dollar changes from policy changes and improve transparency.
Senate Ways and Means members voted to send policy-related provisos back to the committees that oversee those subjects for fuller consideration, after a daylong debate over whether last-minute provisos should be handled in this committee.
The committee’s move followed a substitute motion to return a STAR bond proviso to the Commerce committee for proponent and opponent hearings. Senator Klim said the matter ‘‘should be in a committee where it gets a robust conversation’’ and moved to send it…
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