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Committee holds HB619 after board requests amendment and missing documentation
Summary
Lawmakers agreed not to take up HB619 after the committee learned the bill's requested amendment had not been sent to the clerk; members said they will hold the bill until the official documentation is provided and discuss scheduling a follow-up meeting.
Committee members postponed action on HB619 after a member said the board president had requested an amendment that was not available to the clerk on the record.
The chair (transcript label "Chair") said she had contacted the board president, who wanted an amendment, and that the amendment had been sent to a staffer (Richie) but not to the clerk. "You would not send that to the clerk, so maybe we should not bring this bill up," the chair said, and members agreed that without the documentation they could not process the amendment on the floor.
Committee members discussed options for laying the bill over or adjourning and noted the need for another meeting (mentions of Thursday). The transcript records members deciding to hold the bill rather than advance it in the absence of proper documentation.
No formal numeric vote on HB619 was recorded in the transcript; the action on the record was to hold or lay over the item pending submission of the requested amendment to the clerk.
