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House Appropriations Committee holds straw poll to request conference on Budget Adjustment Act after housing-assistance questions
Summary
The House Appropriations Committee voted in a straw poll Wednesday to request a committee of conference on the Budget Adjustment Act (Act 790) after members pressed staff to tighten language around a $5 million housing-assistance contingency and clarifications affecting Section 8 and food banks. A floor request is expected this afternoon.
The House Appropriations Committee voted in a straw poll Wednesday to request a committee of conference on the Budget Adjustment Act (Act 790), after members raised questions about a housing-assistance contingency and language affecting Section 8 and food banks.
Unidentified Speaker 1 opened the committee, said the bill sent out was generally acceptable, but noted "some changes around section 8" and other small language shifts that made it sensible to seek a conference committee to reconcile differences between chambers. The speaker said the committee had met with the Joint…
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