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Committee finds H542 favorable amid warnings of an unfunded PCB testing mandate
Summary
A legislative committee voted to find House Bill 542 favorable while several members warned a 2027 PCB-testing deadline lacks funding for tests and remediation; the roll call in the transcript shows some dissent but does not include a fully verifiable tally.
A legislative committee voted to find House Bill 542 favorable after members expressed concern that the bill would trigger a 2027 deadline for PCB testing without providing funding for testing or remediation. Speaker 1 framed the debate as a funding issue rather than a scientific one, saying the principal problem was "the fact that there is a looming deadline that everybody has to be tested and there's no funding for the testing or, in case of finding something, the remediation."
The committee motion — "to find H542…
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