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Senate Majority Caucus
The Senate majority caucus walked through the full slate of departmental supplemental budget bills the day before second reading, with the Corrections supplemental emerging as the flashpoint — JBC members openly weighing an initial 'no' vote to force the administration to finally produce a prison-population plan by a hard March 24 deadline.
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·HB-1150No vote
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“And part of their plan was to put 100 inmates into a gym on sled beds. Which didn't sound safe to me.”
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Come to order. We are here to discuss the supplemental bill package coming before the Senate this week. And we are joined by our Joint Budget Committee representatives, Senator Bridges and Amabile, who would like to kick us off. Senator Bridges, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, colleagues. I think what we have before you here today, as I've described before, there are a lot of, lot of hard decisions that we had to make. I'm just going to go in and just go ahead and just jump right in to the bills. The way that the structure works here in supplementals is a little different from the long bill. Each department has its own bill in the supplemental process. So it's not one large bill like the budget bill. It is many different smaller bills. Starting on page 18 of your packet with the Department of Ag House Bill 1150, there is a one time change from a cash fund to increase some funding for to address the pine beetle infestation. One thing I failed to mention during appropriations that I wish I had is the role the insectary may play in this because it turns out…
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