The wording difference involves whether one of the legislative chambers could reject the budget amendment — or whether rejection would require a decision by both the House and Senate. A House proposal offered Friday would allow rejection by only one chamber, while the Senate wants to require both chambers to be in agreement.
“The House’s proposal — and I’m hoping that this was just maybe a grammatical error, sometimes we get our ‘ors’ and our ‘ands’ mixed up — but in the House’s proposal yesterday, it was to propose that essentially either chamber could have veto power over what the other would do as far as the implementation of the Low Income Pool,” said Sen. Anitere Flores, a Miami Republican who is the Senate budget chief on health and human-services issues. “I’m hopeful and I imagine that, of course, that’s not what the House would be proposing.”
Numerous health and human-services issues were bumped Saturday to Latvala and Trujillo. Any issues that they cannot resolve will then go to Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, and House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O’ Lakes.
