LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES: Makes appropriations for the expenses of the legislature for Fiscal Year 2024-2025
HB 843 allocates $93,021,312 from the state budget to cover the operating expenses of the legislature for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. The bill directly impacts state government finances by funding salaries, office supplies, and other necessary costs for legislative staff and facilities. It includes specific amendments that adjust the total appropriation amount and remove several previous Senate committee proposals. This measure is a procedural funding bill that provides the essential resources required for the legislature to function during the upcoming year.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2024
Committee Review
May 2024
House Passage
Jun 2024
Senate Passage
May 2024
Signed into Law
Jun 2024
Introduced Apr 2, 2024
Signed Jun 19, 2024
Floor votes · Senate May 31, 2024 · House Apr 25, 2024
How they voted
36–0
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 37
May 31, 2024
D
Democratic12
100% Yea
R
Republican25
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
22
Key actions
5
Committee
3
Jun 2, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read by title, roll called, yeas 103, nays 0, Senate amendments concurred in.
lower
May 31, 2024
Upper · Passed
Senate floor amendments read and adopted. Read by title, passed by a vote of 38 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 23, 2024
Upper · Passed
Reported with amendments. Rules suspended. Committee amendments read and adopted. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
Apr 25, 2024
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 23, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported favorably (22-0).
lower
Apr 3, 2024
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Jack McFarland
RRepublican
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