Senate adopts orders to report new drafts of child-custody and debt-collection bills, schedules second readings

The Senate adopted orders directing the Committee on Ways and Means to report new drafts for two bills and scheduled both for second reading on July 17, 2025.

An order concerning the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (Senate Bill 1052) directs the committee to report a recommended new draft under the same title as Senate Bill 2550; the order states the new draft will be reported and read into the Senate Journal on Thursday, July 10, 2025, and the bill will be placed on the orders of the day for a second reading on Thursday, July 17, 2025, "for immediate consideration with the new draft pending." The floor reader presented the order as coming from Senator Roberts' office; the record shows the order was adopted after a motion to suspend Senate Rule 7.

A separate order concerning fairness in debt collection (Senate Bill 2537) directs the Committee on Ways and Means to report a recommended new draft under the same title as Senate Bill 2551, with the same read-into-journal and scheduling dates: reported and read into the journal July 10, 2025, and placed for a second reading on July 17, 2025. A motion to suspend the rules to consider the orders forthwith passed by voice vote in both instances.

Both orders are procedural directions to the committee and to the clerk; the transcript does not record debate on the substance of either bill during the floor reading of the orders, nor does it record roll-call votes on the orders beyond the voice votes in which "the ayes have it." The orders place the two measures on the calendar for further committee work and for potential floor action in mid-July.