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Recent appropriations coverage from Yuba-Sutter, including local decisions, public meetings, and civic updates.
The committee moved dozens of bills forward on May 14 while setting aside several measures, including proposals on food additives, drug formularies, medical debt relief and a guaranteed income pilot.
The committee packet says the Agricultural Commissioner wants to raise its FY 2025-26 services-and-supplies budget by $52,258, funded by State Aid for Agriculture revenue that came in above budget.
The utility-affordability and wildfire-compensation bill drew lengthy public comment from Camp Fire and Tubbs Fire survivors in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, but no recorded vote appeared in the excerpted hearing record.
The Communications and Conveyance Committee voted 7-0 to send the bill to Appropriations after an extended hearing, while stressing that it would only ask federal officials to approve the change.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee moved AB 1917 forward Tuesday after hearing only support testimony on the bill’s criminal-procedure change.
