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The Senate Appropriations Committee cleared a long slate of bills through its fiscal review, but two votes broke the routine — a bipartisan pair of Democrats voted against exempting newspaper deliverers from employee status, and the panel's Republicans split off on a party-line vote over a 'second look' post-conviction relief bill they argued wouldn't actually save the state money.
Key Actions
·Preventing Sexual Abuse in JailsPassed
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Notable Quotes
“the fiscal note contemplates that some very, very, very small number of people will be effectively granted a kind of new sentence with the result that on net, the DOC population would be a tiny bit lower. Ceteris paribus, obviously there's lots we don't know, but this bill will not operate to increase the DOC population. Cannot.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (5)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Judy Amabile, Chris Kolker
No (2)Julie Gonzales, Jeff Bridges
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Judy Amabile, Jeff Bridges
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
No (3)Barbara Kirkmeyer, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Judy Amabile, Jeff Bridges
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile, Barbara Kirkmeyer
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Julie Gonzales, Barbara Kirkmeyer, Chris Kolker, Larry Liston, Byron Pelton, Jeff Bridges, Judy Amabile
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I think we're ready to go. Mr. Catlett, please pull or. Please take the roll. Senators Gonzalez, good morning. Kirk Meyer. Good morning. Apologize for being late. No problem. Kolker? Here. Liston. Here. Pelton. Here. Mr. Vice Chair. I was on time. Madam Chair. Here. The Senate Committee on Appropriations will come to order. I don't think I said that before. I said you were going to take the roll. So in reverse order there, Here we go. First bill up is Senate Bill 17. And I see our bill sponsors at the desk. Committee members, do you have questions on Senate Bill 17? Senator Kirkmeyer? Yes. Could you please explain to us how there is not a fiscal note. Yes. The fiscal note. Senator dy. I'm so sorry. No problem. Senator Mobley. The fiscal note came from the division, and we worked out the amendments with the division, and essentially they needed more information that would be publicly posted to go through the arbitration process, which narrowed the. Which decreased the fiscal note in any work that they thought they would have to do. Senator Liston, thank you. So there's a zero fiscal note that is. That is correct.…
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