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Committee amends CJIS membership language after tribal-representation and quorum concerns
Summary
House Bill 1199 was amended in committee to strike specified membership language from one section after testimony warned adding members could make achieving quorums difficult; the committee approved a do-pass as amended and referred the bill to Appropriations.
The Workforce Development Committee amended House Bill 1199 after testimony from the Criminal Justice Information Sharing (CJIS) system and other members raised concerns about duplicative membership and quorum difficulties. The committee then voted to recommend the bill, as amended, and referred it onward.
Discussion centered on language that listed multiple specific representatives (items M through R on page 3). Heidi Smith, director of the state criminal justice information sharing system, testified that adding membership in multiple places could hamper the board’s ability to achieve a quorum. Committee members noted the statute creates two distinct bodies — the Criminal Justice Information Advisory Board and an Indigenous People’s Task Force — and that moving or duplicating membership between the two could create redundancy and practical meeting issues.
Senator Larson moved and the committee adopted an amendment to strike page 3, lines 1 through 10 (removing the specified items M–R from that section). After the amendment passed on roll call, the committee voted to give HB 1199 a do-pass recommendation as amended and to refer it to Appropriations.
Votes: The roll calls on the amendment and on the do-pass as amended were recorded as yes votes by Senator Wabamaw; Senator Axman; Senator Larson; Senator Bosche; Senator Powers. Both motions passed.
