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HSB 678
Topics:Cities & countiesTaxes
Same legislation: SSB 3166
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 7, 2024
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary City councils would gain more control over how they hire library directors and how they spend library tax money. Instead of asking voters to approve changes to the library board or its projects through a special election, local leaders could make these decisions themselves by passing new city laws.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to city library directors and city library policies and initiatives. Under current law, a city council may, on its own motion, or shall, upon receipt of a valid petition, submit a proposal to alter the composition, selection process, or charge of the library board to the voters of the city. The bill strikes this provision and allows a city council to oversee and change the hiring practice for a library director and utilize library tax moneys for library projects and initiatives by ordinance and without a referendum.
House subcommittee
Named February 7, 2024. On February 8, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
307 written public comments to its subcommittee: February 8, 2024 (307) · on the Legislature’s site
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