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[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: We're talking about a completely different piece of legislation. Thank you very much. We are now live, and thank you for that
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: We're gonna actually
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: hold on Maybe. Some other conversation that's bouncing around the building. So, it appears we have postponed this a couple of times today because of a compressed schedule, so thank you for the patience from the gallery, from our deputy treasurer. So h five sixty seven, one of the first things we started talking about this section. Bill at the treasurer's office that, I worked with. He and his team and councils, starting late November, early December on this one. And we have taken a lot of testimony on this. There were other considerations that were talked about for inclusion in this. One was that other position that VPIC was asking for, and that's not reflecting the bill. We have not done any amendments on this. And then there was also another one of the, retired teachers organizations was looking for another piece to be included in here. Now, want to open this up for committee discussion in a moment, but where I'm at on that is, at BPIC position was going to have to be general fund appropriation. And for the sake of getting this very, what I perceive to be clean and well vetted bill out of our room and moving through the process, because we got to start moving some stuff through the process from this room. I was personally, as Louis sponsored the bill, tapping the brakes on the inclusion of that piece. I'm not saying it doesn't have merit and it shouldn't be considered, but I wanted to let that be a conversation more directly held possibly in appropriations or over the same. And then there was also that component with the retired teachers for inclusion there, and within other aspects of impacted state agencies and other entities, there wasn't enough, in my opinion, consensus to propose to the committee to try and include that. So that's why that conversation was briefly touched on in testimony, but I did move forward with a proposal. I'll open this up to conversation, but we are looking at, like, shockingly, like I said, because we brought in a lot of bodies with who typically have a lot of opinions and everybody was very amenable with words on the page. So, we actually have a bill that's introduced right now, or discussed and possibly vote on open to hands. Repecismal,
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: That was or my question. So we're going back to the original bill as introduced, just increasing the amount of unplanned property that will be swooped off. Yes. And no additional staffing or anything. We're going right back to the initial.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Yes, the original never changed. Never changed. Yes. Test one. We heard a lot of testimony and there was a couple of like, we noodle it out a couple of possible amendments, but none of those actually moved forward into an actual. Gotcha. Update.
[Chea Waters Evans (Ranking Member)]: Waters Evans.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: Wait, what did you say were tapping the brakes on?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: There was the feedback request for additional staff.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: Okay.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Okay. Yep.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: And that's in the bill currently, and you want to take it out. It's not in the bill, and you don't want to add it. Correct. Okay. And what was the other thing?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: It was a track speech in this clearing because it's one of those retirement teacher subsets that's super confusing. So, they were looking to introduce new language to Help me remember this one. Add some representation on the board. Like an advisory board. I haven't gotten that back yet, even though I've submitted it.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: Do you have this additional member?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: And we heard from, I believe it was Shelley last week on that pattern, but we didn't actually, there was a short form drafted, but not in yet, but also like we could have done it without the short form. But there was also, like, there's not a broad enough consensus with, like, the agency administration and everything else, for my humble opinion to include that at this stage with what seems to be a very widely supported piece of legislation.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: I was confused about tapping the brakes. I thought we were stopping the exhaustion that was in the bill. But we're saying that we're going to pull it
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: No, like the things that we were kind of that were requests for addition.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: Yeah, we're not. We're not. Yes. All right. Thank you.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: I'm sorry if I said that in inverted.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: No, I might be asking for clarification in an inverted way, but I'm glad we reached the same the same conclusion. It seems fine to me. I didn't hear any red flags when we heard testimony from anybody. And it seems like, you know, something like this, if everyone's in agreement, know?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Yeah, no, absolutely. And like one of the things with me is like I have had my fingers in orbit, been the lead sponsor of a bill that has this many moving parts where like not one person has to move the comma. It was kind of weird. And that's one of the reasons I kinda delayed
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: I'm fucking on my three
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: year old. Right? But I mean, a full life is a full life at first. Robert Hooper.
[Robert Hooper (Member)]: I saw nothing in the treasurer's omnibus bill as presented to appraise the flag for me at all, including the some of the add on stuff, which have been okay, but in order to get it moving, that's good.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: I'm fine with it to move forward as is. I think other stuff may complicate it, so think move it forward, clean, like it is.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: And this is going to have stuff on the train. It can get complicated in some other
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: In some other not ours. Not ours. No. Shall we make a motion?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Are
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: we ready or not yet?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Am Okay,
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: I make a motion to find H567 favorable? As introduced. As introduced. Thank you.
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Barring any further discussion or commentary, we'll call the roll.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Boyden, yes. Representative Coffin?
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Pango? Yes. Representative Cooper Randolph? Yes. Representative Cooper Burlington?
[Robert Hooper (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Morgan?
[Michael Morgan (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Nugent? Yes. Representative Pinsonault?
[Sandra "Sandy" Pinsonault (Member)]: Yes.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: Representative Stone? Yes. Representative Waters Evans? Yes. Representative Bayonne? Yes. Twelve-zero-zero. Eleven-zero-zero.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: That
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: was last biennium. Say it one more time. Thank you. That was a great mishap in front of the deputy's room. Alright. Job, Tina. That was the first big bill we got out of here.
[Lucy Boyden (Clerk)]: So Nice to see like,
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: doing the report. Biden reporting. Okay.
[Lisa Hango (Vice Chair)]: I
[Matthew Birong (Chair)]: will take that one. All right, team. Good job for today. We've got a window of time before the house at 03:30, but we have no shortage of bills to organize, find witnesses for Udalon languages, schedule meetings with stakeholders, and all those fun things. So the remainder of time will be allocated for study hall. Thank you very much.