Reviving hopes for one of Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford’s key priorities, a divided House State Affairs Committee signed off on a scaled-back set of changes to the pension system for public employees.

But the panel’s party-line, 11-6 vote on Friday signaled that the more modest approach to overhauling the Florida Retirement System has done little to cool partisan passions about the legislation. At the same time, some GOP supporters said the legislation doesn’t go far enough.