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note with respect to each delegate proposal or even with

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respect to each Committee proposal, you would be putting an

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undue burden, not only, one, on the delegates and the Com-

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mittee members, but, two, on the officials of the State,

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especially in the Fiscal Research Bureau, who would be

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inundated with requests to provide fiscal information re-

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quired, and there is always, of course, the difficulty of

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knowing in a particular case whether or not it was the

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type of a recommendation that would require a fiscal note.

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For example, take the whole Bill of Rights section. Can

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the effect of those provisions, whatever they ultimately ma

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be, can they be evaluated in terms, in financial terms?

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Most of us think not.

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In recommending the rejection of this resolu-

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tion, we do agree that the fiscal note procedure perhaps

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could be in connection with some financial committee

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reports, especially the Committee on State Finance and

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Taxation. It might well be that the members of that Com-

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mittee and its Chairman might think that in a particular

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case that a proposed recommendation would be more con-

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vincing or more understandable on the part of the dele-