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Senate institutions panel signals support for reallocation of Newport prison funds
Summary
The Senate Institutions Committee took an informal straw poll backing staff’s bookkeeping change to consolidate cash lines and move $500,000 out of bonded accounts tied to the Newport prison; staff said revised appropriations language will be circulated for insertion into the bill.
The Senate Institutions Committee informally signaled support for a staff proposal to reallocate funds tied to the Newport prison, taking a straw poll on changes that would consolidate cash lines and alter bonded entries in the appropriations bill.
Scott, a committee staff member, described the adjustment as a bookkeeping change meant to consolidate and reassign existing entries. “So what we're doing here is the the cash from 1946 and 47 you're going to take out. You're going to then put that cash…
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