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House committee holds straw polls on Stevens amendment to delay effective date and expand tenant-representation pilot
Summary
The House Committee on General & Housing took nonbinding straw polls on March 27 over a Stevens amendment that would (1) delay most of a pending housing bill’s effective date by one year and (2) expand a tenant-representation pilot from two counties to statewide; the pilot received majority support in the informal poll, while the delay did not.
Chair opened a brief March 27 meeting of the House Committee on General & Housing to take three straw polls on an amendment offered by Representative Tom Stevens: an overall vote on the amendment, a vote on delaying the bill’s effective date by one year, and a vote on expanding a tenant-representation pilot from two counties to statewide.
The chair explained that a straw poll is nonbinding and "has no legal effect" but lets members register their preferences. The Stevens amendment’s two principal parts are (1) pushing the bill’s effective date back roughly one year for most provisions, and (2) extending a tenant-representation pilot program from two counties to…
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