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Panel approves amendments to S327, keeps sunset removal and lowers program thresholds
Summary
Committee members approved an amendment to S327 and then the bill as amended; changes include keeping removal of a sunset provision, lowering annual program thresholds to increase oversight, clarifying that the change applies to the education payment, and making notice language a template rather than a mandated free mailed notice.
The Ways & Means Committee voted to find S327, as amended, favorable after staff walked members through a set of technical changes and policy choices intended to increase oversight and clarify implementation.
Committee staff said the amendments preserve the committee's decision to remove a statutory sunset but replace recurring sunset reviews with lower annual program thresholds so that programs requiring…
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