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House committee sends multilingual emergency‑alert bill to full House after close vote
Summary
Representative Velasco’s Senate Bill 31 was advanced to the Committee of the Whole on April 2, 2025, after the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee adopted a technical amendment and approved the bill by a 7-6 vote.
Representative Velasco introduced Senate Bill 31 to the House Business Affairs and Labor Committee on April 2, 2025, describing the bill as a public‑safety measure to expand language access in emergency alerts. Velasco said the proposal grew from a 2023 study (House Bill 12 37) and field experience after the 2020 Grizzly Creek Fire, when multilingual alerts were not broadly available. The committee adopted an amendment (L010) that reverted the definition of prepaid wireless telecommunication service to current law and then advanced the bill to the Committee of the Whole on a 7-6 vote.
The bill would require alerting authorities, beginning in 2027, to issue…
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