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<br />2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations <br /> <br />Page 2 of 22 <br /> <br />House deadline. So we do need to take action today. I think the <br />deadline's tomorrow on this bill. But because it has changed <br />significantly, if it's okay by the Committee, what I think we need <br />to do is have Representative Penry tell us about what the bill looks <br />like now, and then if there's anybody out there that wants to <br />provide any testimony on today's version of the bill, which is a <br />2/28 draft that we should all have in front of us, I'd like to proceed <br />that way. <br /> <br />Hopefi.Jlly, we can all get on the same page and understand how <br />the bill reads if we go down this path. So, Representative Penry, if <br />you'd like to walk us through the amendments and the changes in <br />the bill since we last looked at it. <br /> <br />Rep. PelllY <br /> <br />Thank you, Madame Chair. Thank you, Committee members for <br />the opportunity to herein take action on House Bill 1177. As all of <br />you will recall during the course of the first round of testimony we <br />took on the bill, the number of ideas were fleshed out in a very <br />significant, impOliant dialogue. And so in the two or three weeks <br />since we had that initial hearing, myself, Speaker George, and a <br />number of key stakeholders throughout the Water community have <br />engaged in an exhaustive and at time exhausting conversation <br />about how to really refine the concepts that were in this bill as <br />introduced. <br /> <br />As we said when we introduced the bill, this bill was a work-in- <br />progress and meant to be that way. We wanted to hear from <br />leaders in the Water community to refine those concepts. And I'm <br />proud to say that today we have, and I feel like we've got a work <br />product that I believe deserves the support of this Committee. <br /> <br />Madame Chair, the way I guess, the best way to proceed would <br />just be sort of to go through sequentially through the amendments <br />as they appear, and if members have questions I'll be happy to <br />enteliain them. <br /> <br />Madame Chair: Representative Penry, that sounds like a good plan. And for those <br />of you who might want copies of the individual amendments, we <br />do have them up here. Representative Hoppy. <br /> <br />Rep. Hoppy: I need copies of <br /> <br />Madame Chair: That's a good start. The amendments are incorporated, I'm pretty <br />sure, right Representative Penry, all these individual amendments <br />are incorporated in the 2/28 draft that the Committee has in front of <br />them right? <br /> <br />www.escriptionist.com Page 2 of 22 <br />