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Rules committee advances agenda, selects three bills for immediate consideration and hears brief presentations on pensions, courts, drones and bingo
Summary
The Rules Standing Committee approved a committee substitute on a standing item, voted to send a bill to a standing committee, and selected SB143, SB369 and SB452 for immediate consideration while hearing short presentations on bills affecting firefighter rehiring, magistrate court thresholds, insurer use of aerial imagery, and bingo regulation.
The Rules Standing Committee met and, after approving a committee substitute on a standing item, selected three bills for immediate consideration and heard short presentations on several measures ranging from retirement benefits to insurance notice requirements.
The committee began by adopting a committee substitute for a standing item (transcript reference: SR744); the chair announced the substitute passed "by committee sub." The committee then gavels into its Rules Calendar agenda and held an invocation led by Senator Dixon.
Senator Albers presented SB143, describing it as "a great bill for the firefighter pension fund, which has no state tax dollars in it whatsoever." He said the bill "allows... [firefighters] to be able to retire and then come back to work," noting returning retirees would not continue to vest in the…
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