The House Education Committee is debating new legislation proposed by Reps. Eric Anderson, Bob Nonini, Phil Hart and Shirley Ringo to require the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee to take both public testimony and comment from germane committee members before setting any budget. The bill also would add requirements for minutes-keeping at JFAC, and would ban JFAC from suspending any statute through intent language. "My intent is not to roadblock anything that's happened this year," Anderson, R-Priest Lake, told the House Education Committee. The bill has an emergency clause, but it wouldn't affect this year's budget actions, he said. Ironically, among the questions the Education Committee members are debating is whether to hold a hearing on the new bill; backers are calling for sending it directly to the full House for debate there.