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[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: Hi. We are gathered here in the Ways and Means Committee Room at Quarter to Five on a Friday. Thank you, everyone, for being here at Quarter to Five on a Friday on May 22. You vote on S-sixty four. Madam Chair, I
[James Masland (Member)]: make a motion to find S-sixty four favorable. Would be accepted.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: I vote for any discussion of S-sixty four. I may encourage our House Appropriations Committee by voting no to encourage you to consider amending this, because I think if you have healthcare, it should be healthcare for anyone and not healthcare just for people who can afford it. I appreciate that. I hope you also talk to me about it, because I don't know if they will know that just from reading your note. Okay, great. Anyone else need to say anything? Okay. Do you? No. Okay. You just did the thing
[James Masland (Member)]: with your hands.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: I did. Then if the clerk could please call the roll. Careful. She knows I Sometimes people aren't here. Representative Branagan?
[Carolyn Branagan (Member)]: Yes. I will vote no. Is Representative Burkhardt? Representative Higley? Yes.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: Representative Holcombe? No. Representative Kimbell? Yes. Representative Masland?
[James Masland (Member)]: Which one did vote not? Sorry. Optometrists. No. I can tell you why. Okay.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: You don't need to know. That wasn't representative Ode. What the hell? Representative Ode, we
[Unidentified Committee Staff (Broadcast/Tech)]: are calling your name. Oh, I'll stay. Okay. No,
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: this is on the team. Nope. Patrice? Obstomatives. Yes. Representative Page?
[Woodman Page (Member)]: Yes.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: Representative Waszazak? Yes. Representative Canfield? Yes. Representative Kornheiser, yes. We have voted the bill favorable seven four zero. Thank you. Representative Waszazak is going to report. And that's it for the Oh, yes. You would like to explain your vote.
[James Masland (Member)]: Sure. This was within the last hour or so. I heard conflicting testimony here and there, and I not directly from JFO, but I didn't speak to them personally, but I think I got honest opinion, you know, directed not through the grapevine. The JFO was contradicting what we heard about who gets paid for what, I mean, the financial stuff. I may get straightened out, but when I hear something from one party and I hear something different from JFO, it really concerns me. So, this afternoon, I'm a no. Okay. I may yet put yes on the floor. I just need to, we've all been busy doing 19 things, that's my short term assessment, and I want to make sure I
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: get it right. Absolutely. Heard. Thank you. We are Does anyone know of any bills that I have forgotten about that we're supposed to vote on today? Okay. In that case, we will see you at some point on nope. At some point on Tuesday. Don't have anything scheduled yet, but I'm sure we will. Send emails this weekend. The Yield Bill Conference Committee just met. And the miscellaneous tax is waiting to meet. And You're meeting tonight?
[James Masland (Member)]: No. No. And
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: that is all my announcements. Yes. Representative Holcombe. Are are the conference committees meeting on Monday? No. No one is working or meeting on Monday because it was Memorial Day, and so staff passed the day off. And I hope everyone does something properly ceremonial. Yes. It's going to. The week will be Tuesday to Friday or Tuesday to Thursday. I don't know.
[James Masland (Member)]: When my uncle when my aunt and uncle moved into Kendall, which it is
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: Is this an on the record story?
[James Masland (Member)]: It can be off the record. I'd wait to wear it, you know, but it has to do with what I had to say. He used to say, Kennel. The question is, how many hearing aids did those report That's what you heard, you know? And so, as I was saying, I'm trying to verify what I heard that I heard from the day and the I made very well find myself going yes, but I was concerned, as I said, when important information seems to be conflicted. Thank you.
[Emilie Kornheiser (Chair)]: So
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