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Tuesday, March 24, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Finance advanced a PERA plan-options expansion, a mobile-home tax-foreclosure overhaul born of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, and a paperwork break for deployed troops — while at its own sponsor's request killing a bill on mineral-rights tax collection that the chair openly wished she could keep alive.

Key Actions

·Expanding Plan Options for PERAPassed

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Notable Quotes

I actually really like this bill. I'm sad that you're PI ing it.

Cathy KippThe chair's unusual candor as the committee, at the sponsor's request, killed a bill she supported on local-government mineral-rights tax collection costs.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (9)Adrienne Benavidez, Scott Bright, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Janice Marchman, Marc Snyder, Cathy Kipp, Lisa Frizell
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (8)Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder, Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp
No (1)Adrienne Benavidez
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (8)Janice Marchman, Cathy Kipp, Scott Bright, Lisa Frizell, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Cleave Simpson, Marc Snyder
No (1)Adrienne Benavidez
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (6)Cleave Simpson, Janice Marchman, Chris Kolker, Kyle Mullica, Marc Snyder, Adrienne Benavidez
No (3)Cathy Kipp, Lisa Frizell, Scott Bright
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TranscriptPreview
Good afternoon. Welcome to Senate Finance. Ms. Rudabish, will you please take the roll? Senator Spanavidas. Here, here, here, here. Excused. Present. Here, here. Manager. Here. Good afternoon. Welcome to Senate Finance. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Senator Benavidez to the committee. She will be replacing Senator Gonzalez for the rest of this session. And then who knows what next year looks like. But that's another day to worry about that. Okay, we are going to begin with confirmation for the Banking Board. And I believe we have Scott Applegate, Clay Roberts and I have Allison Rothermel to introduce. I believe so. Please come on forward and we'll get started. So Ms. Rothermel, I believe you are introducing both of our folks, so if. Please proceed. And we have a little hazing ritual here that we do. Press the gray button on the table for the green light to go on, otherwise it doesn't work. And that's sort of our little like our trick candle things. Please proceed. Thank you. Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Alison Rothermel and I serve as the Operations and Public Deposit Protection Act Director
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