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Representative Hoopes urges undoing pension-board changes added to the budget without public committee debate
Summary
House Bill 719 seeks to undo language placed in last year’s budget affecting pension boards; sponsor Rep. Hoopes said the change was inserted without adequate committee process, and members representing educators and retirees urged restoring transparency and stakeholder representation.
Representative Hoopes presented House Bill 719 to the House Public Insurance and Pensions Committee as a narrowly focused, process-oriented bill seeking to undo and revisit pension-related budget language that was included last year.
Hoopes said his interest is procedural: he asked the committee to "take a step back" and restore the committee-level review and stakeholder conversations that he said were bypassed when the change was added to the budget. "What this language will do is basically just undo and bring it back to what it was before," he said, emphasizing…
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